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Police commander: ‘Thank God he didn’t go a little further, because the other train would have hit him’

Updates on boy whose leg was severed by train in Washougal: Surgeon at nearby baseball field rushed to help, boy was crawling under slow-moving train when pant leg got caught on tracks

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The railroad tracks near George Schmid Memorial Park where a 15-year-old boy had his leg severed by a train moving about 3 mph on Wednesday, May 16.

Officials say the 15-year-old boy whose leg was severed after being hit by a train in Washougal Wednesday was attempting to crawl under the train when he was hit.

Washougal Police Commander Allen Cook said the teen was crossing underneath a slow-moving westbound train on railroad tracks near George Schmid Memorial Park Wednesday evening, when his pant leg got caught on the rails.

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