Budding Journalist Killed in Freak Train Accident During Dramatic Situation — ‘Worst Nightmare Ever’

A 22-year-old budding journalist was killed last month after being struck by a train in Chicago, leading her parents to call for increased safety around the station where the incident took place.
Grace Bentkowski, 22, who had worked for several months as a creative producer at NewsNation, was killed on July 25 at the Hegewisch South Shore station while heading back to the family home in Dyer, Indiana, according to WGN-TV.
At the station, riders must cross the tracks to go and from the parking lot. On the day of her death, her family said Bentkowski crossed after others had done so, but was struck.

“We have the kids on a Life360 [GPS] app and we saw that she got on the train,” Phil Bentkowski, her father, said. “And then a delay came up on the South Shore website. The next one said train-pedestrian accident. I thought, ‘glad it’s probably not her.’”
Then the GP …