PALOS PARK, IL — A Palos Park woman talked a distraught young man away from a Metra rail line bridge, where he was poised Friday night to jump into the path of an oncoming train.

The 19-year-old man, upset over the death of a sibling, left his truck in the 8200 block of West 123rd Street and stood on the bridge. A woman who had just left the train noticed the man, approached him, and asked "Are you OK?" according to Palos Park police.

She spoke with him a while and persuaded him to go with her to a hospital.