LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. — The person who was struck and killed by a train near Thursday morning has been identified.
Coroner Margaret Fisher identified the victim as 59-year-old Kenneth Zeigler of Gaston.
The death happened around 9 a.m. Thursday morning at a set of tracks at Lois Lane and Chapel Road, which is near the town of South Congaree.
Fisher said Zeigler was walking on a railroad track when a train approached him from behind. She said the train tried to warn him with sounds, but Zeigler, who had been deaf since birth, did not react.