Man lying on tracks hit by train

DALTON - A man lying on railroad tracks was run over by a train Wednesday north of Dalton, authorities said. <br> <br> The train&#39;s engineer told investigators with the Whitfield County Sheriff&#39;s Office that he sounded the horn, but the man didn&#39;t move. The engineer hit the emergency brakes, but the train went over the man before it stopped. <br> <br> Sheriff Scott Chitwood said investigators did not know why the man was on the track. A wallet was recovered, but the victim&#39;s identity was withheld until his family could be notified. <br> <br> In the past two years, there have been several pedestrian accidents on the same stretch of track, including another fatality. In December, a freight train passed over a Dalton man on the Norfolk Southern tracks, leaving him uninjured except for a few scrapes. <br> <br> Chitwood said drifters often walk across the track in that area.

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