COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus man died Sunday after being hit by a train near Bethel Village.
The Bartholomew County Coroner's Office identified the man as 29-year-old Dylan Richard Lonaker.
Lonaker was walking north on the railroad tracks just after 3:15 p.m. when he was hit from behind by a train at Dawson Street and State Road 11/Jonesville Road, police said. The crash happened about three miles south of the heart of Columbus.
Lonaker was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a Facebook post at around 4 p.m., Bartholomew County Sheriff Matt Myers advised that SR 11/Jonesville Road would be closed between 200 South and 450 South for a "lengthy" amount of time due to a fatal crash investigation.
Myers asked people to avoid the area while accident reconstructionists from the sheriff's department, Columbus Police Department and Indiana State Police investigated.