10/09/2026
INCIDENT RELEASE:
On October 7, 2026, at approximately 9:56PM, emergency services responded to the area of Broadway St and the railroad tracks in reference to a pedestrian who had been struck by a train.
Upon officers’ arrival, they located the pedestrian who was still underneath the train and had sustained significant injuries. The pedestrian was removed from under the train and transported to Schneck Medical Center where life saving measures were provided, but the pedestrian was ultimately pronounced deceased.
The Seymour Police Department’s Serious and Fatal Crash Investigation Team, along with the Seymour Investigations Division, responded to the scene of the incident.
Currently, the name of the pedestrian is being withheld until positive identification can be confirmed and notification of family.
Assisting at the scene were the Seymour Fire Department, Jackson County EMS, Jackson County Emergency Management, and the CSX Police Department.
URGENT PUBLIC SERVICE NOTICE:
As a reminder, it is a crime to be on the right-of-way of a railroad company. The Seymour Police Department urges folks to avoid walking on or near railroad tracks. Remember, “see tracks, think train.”
IC 8-3-15-3 Riding, driving, or walking on right-of-way or yard a misdemeanor; definitions, exceptions:
Sec. 3. (a) A person who rides, drives, or walks on or along the right-of-way or yard of a railroad company at a place other than a public crossing commits a Class B misdemeanor.
(b) "Right-of-way" means the track or roadbed owned or leased by a railroad which is located on either side of its tracks and which is readily recognizable to a reasonable person as being railroad property or is reasonably identified as such by fencing or appropriate signs.
(c) "Yard" means a system of parallel tracks, cross-overs, and switches where cars are switched and made up into trains, and where cars, locomotives, and other rolling stock are kept when not in use or awaiting repairs.
(d) This section does not apply to:
(1) passengers on trains or employees of a railroad company while engaged in the performance of their duties;
(2) picketing by railroad employees in the vicinity of entrances to railroad company property;
(3) an authorized representative of the railroad employees;
(4) a person going upon the right-of-way or into the yard to save human life or to protect property;
(5) a person being on the station grounds or in the depot of the railroad company as a passenger or for the purpose of transacting business;
(6) a person, or the person's family or employees going upon the right-of-way for the purpose of crossing from one (1) part to another part of a farm the person owns or leases, where the farm lies on both sides of the right-of-way;
(7) a person having written permission from the railroad company to go upon the right-of-way;
(8) representatives of the Indiana department of transportation;
(9) representatives of the federal Surface Transportation Board; or
(10) a professional surveyor or a professional surveyor's employees who are on the right-of-way or in the yard for the purpose of making land surveys.
Lieutenant Michael Cooper
Seymour Police Department
