Train Kills Man Who Survived Earlier Crash
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NORTHBROOK, Ill. — A man was killed by a train nearly 70 years after he survived a fatal crash of a train and school bus at the same crossing.
Herman Lorenz, 88, was struck Saturday by an Amtrak train while walking home from the Northbrook Garage, a business started by his great-grandfather in 1843 as a blacksmith and wagon shop.
Witnesses told police that Lorenz went around the crossing gates and kept going after the train engineer sounded a warning horn.
Gerry Lorenz said his father often recounted an October 1926 crash at that crossing in which a train sliced through the school bus he was riding, killing two people, including Lorenz’s seatmate.
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