Victim in Friday Train Accident Identified, From Wauwatosa
Caledonia Police have identified Jocelyn Flashinski, 31, as the woman who was struck and killed by a train Friday.
Updated at 1 p.m., June 9. The woman killed Friday by a train has been identified. According to the Caledonia police, Jocelyn M. Flashinski of Wauwatosa was killed after getting struck by a southbound Amtrak train Friday evening near 4 Mile Road and Highway H in Caledonia. Flashinski does have ties to the Racine area. She was 31. Patch reached out to the Flashinski family, but relatives were too distraught to comment. Police said Flashinski ran onto the tracks and that "the incident is not criminal in nature." The train was traveling from Milwaukee to Chicago. Vince Patoka, a passenger on a northbound train from Chicago to Milwaukee that had to stop after the accident, told Patch that the conductor had been making announcements about every…
John Gianoli
8:21 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
this is accurate, i was on the same train going to chicago expected to arrive at 7:14, instead it was 10:45 when we arrived. The police, firefighters, medical examiner were on the scene to gather evidence for very long time. However on our train we were left in the dark about what happened and we just had to wait, no buses, no info, etc. There was something under train where i sat so the … more ›