Man Electrocuted On Tracks Of Orange Line

Victim Killed By Third Rail

POSTED: 9:15 am EDT August 25, 2007
UPDATED: 10:19 am EDT August 25, 2007

BOSTON -- A man was killed Friday night, after being electrocuted on the tracks of the Orange Line, according to MBTA officials.

MBTA workers, who spotted the unidentified man on the tracks, stopped an approaching train.

The victim then apparently crawled under the train and was electrocuted when he hit the third rail.

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