A woman has died after being hit by a train in Sydney’s west.
The woman, aged in her 50s, was hit by a car at Punchbowl train station in Sydney’s south-west yesterday afternoon.
The woman is known to have climbed onto the track to retrieve something she had dropped and was unable to get back onto the platform.
Emergency services were called to the station where Fire and Rescue NSW crews worked to free the woman from beneath the train.
She was immediately put in an ambulance before being taken to St George’s Hospital, but tragically died on Wednesday morning.
Police have spoken to a number of people at the scene and examined CCTV as part of their investigations.
The train driver tested negative for alcohol.
The woman in her 50s was hit by a car at Punchbowl train station in Sydney’s southwest.
Commuter trains were thrown into chaos yesterday afternoon as a result of the incident.