{"id":1550,"date":"2026-02-11T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/1550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:56:13","slug":"geneva-18-year-old-dies-after-being-hit-by-train-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/1550\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva 18-year-old dies after being hit by train \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">An 18-year-old from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\">Geneva<\/a> has died after an eastbound freight train struck him near the Western Avenue grade crossing in Geneva, officials announced in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Geneva police and firefighters were called at 9:51 p.m. Sunday for a report of a train accident involving a pedestrian. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Police met with the train conductor and located the teen near the Union Pacific-West railway tracks east of Western Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The train struck the teen on the northernmost track west of the Western Avenue crossing. He was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The teen\u2019s family members still are being notified and police did not release his name, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">He was reportedly alone at the time of the incident, and preliminary findings indicate no foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The stopped freight train blocked the Western Avenue crossing for several hours due to the emergency response, according to the release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Metra Police Department, Geneva Emergency Management Agency and Kane County Office of Emergency Management assisted Geneva police and fire on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Geneva police and the Kane County Coroner\u2019s Office still are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old from Geneva has died after an eastbound freight train struck him near the Western Avenue grade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1979,65,898,1980,899,1981],"class_list":{"0":"post-1550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-geneva","10":"tag-kane-county","11":"tag-kane-county-front-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-shaw-local-front-headlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}