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Hunting
Accident File > Safe Hunting?
Train hits, kills man hunting rabbits
February 28, 2012
By Eli George, WIVB.com
PORTLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) - A Tonawanda man hunting rabbits with
friends Tuesday morning was struck and killed by a train in
Chautauqua County. The group of five hunters, all from the
Tonawanda area, were along the tracks off East Forest Avenue in the
Town of Portland around 9:30 Tuesday morning. Three of the hunters
were in the brush and another hunter and the victim, 68-year-old
Giovanni Faso, were along the tracks. Authorities say Faso
was looking in the brush when a train neared, sounding its horn. The
hunter with Faso shouted at him several times to move away from the
tracks, but Faso was struck and thrown 30 feet, landing in some
brush. He was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to ECMC for an
autopsy. The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office says at this
time, it appears that Faso believed he was far enough of the tracks
to avoid getting hit, but that he was not. Their investigation is
continuing.
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