UPDATED: Man hit by train dies

UPDATE: A Pensacola man has died from injuries he received Saturday after he was struck by a train while walking beside railroad tracks.

Sgt. Leon Martin with the Pensacola Police Department said Blake Austin Doyle, 29, died around 9 p.m. Saturday in a local

hospital. Martin said Doyle was walking beside train tracks right at the edge of the rail just after 5 p.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Chipley Avenue.

ORIGINAL STORY:

A 30-year-old man was severely injured when he was hit by a train near the end of Perry Avenue off Cervantes Street on Saturday night.

The incident occurred about 5:15 p.m. on the railroad tracks bordering Pensacola Bay roughly behind the Jerry's Drive-In restaurant. The man was was rushed to Baptist Hospital via ambulance with a severe head injury and several broken bones.

"I was out spraying weeds in my yard and watching the train go by when all of a sudden it started making all this noise," Courtney Garner said. "I thought it had jumped the tracks."

Pensacola Police, Escambia County Fire Rescue and EMS responded to the call. The CSX train was disconnected so emergency crews could transport the man by stretcher to a waiting ambulance.

Officers were investigating a black Honda Civic parked at the end of Perry Avenue for a possible connection.

The man's identity and condition are unknown.