Pedestrian killed in crash involving train in Northern Colorado

Police are investigating after a person was struck and killed by a train in Northern Colorado on Wednesday morning.

Greeley police confirmed that there was a fatal crash involving a pedestrian and a train in the area this morning. They provided an update Wednesday afternoon, saying the crash happened around 6 a.m. on the railroad tracks south of the Highway 34/Highway 85 interchange.

The Greeley Police Department says a Union Pacific train was heading north through the area when the conductor saw a man walking north along the tracks. Although the man initially moved off the tracks when the conductor sounded the train's horn, he says the man then stepped back into the train's path and was struck.

On Friday, the Weld County Coroner's Office identified the man killed as 36-year-old Anthony Joseph Mendoza of Greeley.

The crash remains under investigation, and the GPD asked anyone with information on the incident to contact Officer Garrett Casperson at Casperson@greeleypd.com.

Two of the three train crossings in the city closed while investigators worked at the scene. They reopened the crossings just before 9 a.m.