Police Haven’t Identified Man Killed By Amtrak Train

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Authorities have not yet released the name of a young man who was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in South Kingstown Wednesday.

Train service was halted for about an hour as South Kingstown and Amtrak police investigated the accident, less than two miles from the Kingston Station.

None of the nearly 100 passengers on the train headed to Boston was injured.

Trains on the heavily traveled Washington-to-Boston route were running on their regular schedules yesterday. Cliff Cole, a spokesman at Amtrak, said there was no reason to believe speed played a role in the man’s death. The high-speed Acela train “was going at or below 130 mph,” Cole said, the speed limit on the curving stretch of track north of Hundred Acre Pond.

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