Man killed by train
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Posted 7:01AM on Friday 22nd November 2002 ( 22 years ago )
GROVETOWN - A Hephzibah man died after he being hit by a freight train in east Georgia. <br>
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William Gene Joyner, 25, was walking along the CSX tracks about 3 a.m. Thursday, Columbia County Deputy Coroner Vernon Collins said. <br>
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``The engineer said he was blowing his horn as he was going through the crossing,'' Collins said. ``He saw the guy walking along the edge of the crossties.'' <br>
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Collins said Joyner ``turned around and looked but kept on walking. The engineer applied his emergency brakes but wasn't able to stop in time."
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