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By Times Record News

A Wichita Falls man was seriously injured when he was struck by a train early Friday.

Police say a man called in on his cell phone about 4:30 a.m. and said he had been struck by a passing train.

The man used his phone to guide first responders to the scene, which was on railroad tracks near the Silver Dollar saloon in the 1400 block of Old Iowa Park Road. Police had an approaching Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train stopped as the man was removed from the tracks.

He was flown to a Dallas hospital for treatment of severe arm and leg injuries. Police did not release the man's name but said he was 56 years old.