By Jennifer Sorentrue, Staff Writer, Palm Beach Post; April 18, 2018
All three of the pedestrians who were accidentally struck and killed by Brightline trains in Palm Beach County had drugs in their system at the time they were hit, toxicology reports filed with the medical examiner’s office show.
Since Brightline began testing along the Florida East Coast Railway tracks last year, five people have been killed by the company’s trains in Palm Beach County. Three of the deaths were accidental, and in each of those cases blood samples taken from the victims tested positive for drugs, death records show. The remaining two deaths were suicides.
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