NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A 16-year-old girl was seriously injured after she was struck by a train Wednesday morning in New Smyrna Beach, police said.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 11:48 a.m. near the railroad tracks at Eleanor Avenue, according to the New Smyrna Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
The teen was airlifted to an Orlando hospital for treatment. Police said the preliminary investigation indicates the incident “appears to be accidental.”<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n According to police, investigators believed the teen was walking on the tracks at the time of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n “At this time, there is no indication that the incident was an act of self-harm,” a police spokesperson told FOX 35 News.<\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n Railroad crossings at Eleanor Avenue and Wayne Avenue have reopened.<\/p>\n The investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the New Smyrna Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n Volusia County News<\/a>New Smyrna Beach<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A 16-year-old girl was seriously injured after she was struck by a train…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,11681,115,139,141,140,628,2261],"class_list":["post-349090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-new-smyrna","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us","tag-volusia-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}