NEAR MISS!! Girl almost hit by Metra express train Chicago, IL

I was railfanning Edgebrook Metra station on the Milwaukee North line during evening rush hour and a Metra outbound express train going about 60-70mph was approaching the station. Metra expresses happen every weekday, but this time some girl ran across Central Ave. grade crossing at the last second, roughly 10-20 feet from the train. Literally if she was 1-2 seconds earlier she would have been hit and likely killed, this was a real near miss the train went into emergency after it passed the central ave cros
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