A New Hampshire woman was killed when an Amtrak train struck her while she was saving a dog from the tracks, officials said.
42-year-old Alicia Leonardi was with her ex-boyfriend, walking his dog Jackson by the train tracks near Newfields Road in Exeter at around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
“She loved that dog. That dog was everything to her,” Cathleen Collis, the victim’s mom, said.
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The pair was walking when the dog got startled by the train’s horn and ran onto the tracks.
Leonardi and her ex-boyfriend chased after the dog, and all three were struck by the train. The man survived the ordeal with minor injuries.
“She’s a very happy, smiley, bubbly girl, and I’m going to miss her very much,” Collis said of her late daughter.
