The Bartow County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fatal accident involving a train.
According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, at approximately 5:20 p.m. on March 22, 2014, deputies responded to the train tracks in the area of Sugar Valley Road near Cassville Road. CSX reported that a train had hit a pedestrian walking his dog on the train tracks. The pedestrian was later identified as Donald Eugene Brock, 44, of Cartersville, GA. The train sounded its horn several times to warn Brock of it’s approach but Brock did not respond to the warning.
Attempts were made to resuscitate Brock but were not successful. Brock was pronounced dead and was transported to Cartersville Medical Center pending an autopsy by the GBI Medical Examiner.