Train Kills Boy on Railway Bridge, Severs Man’s Leg
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LAKE FOREST — A 4-year-old boy was killed and a man seriously injured Saturday when they were struck by a passenger train as they tried to use a railway bridge to cross over a major thoroughfare.
The man, whose lower left leg was severed in the accident, was identified as John Allinson, 36, of Lake Forest. The boy was identified as Christian Endoso, also of Lake Forest.
Allinson’s two daughters, ages 5 and 1 1/2, were with him but escaped injury in the 12:15 p.m. collision, authorities said.
Orange County Fire Capt. Dan Young said Allinson may have been hit trying to save the boy, who ran toward the Amtrak train.
The relationship between the two was unclear, but Allinson may have been baby-sitting the boy. Doctors at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana were trying late Saturday to reattach Allinson’s leg.
Allinson and the children apparently were using the bridge between Jeronimo Road and Overlake Drive to cross Lake Forest Drive, authorities said.
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