Honiton: Man hit by train taken to hospital
An SWR train arriving at Axminster (By Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77228386)
A man was taken to hospital with "life-changing" injuries after being struck by a train near Axminster railway station on Tuesday (27 December).
Police are not treating the incident as suspicious.
A spokesperson for the British Transport Police said: "Officers were called to Axminster station at 3.11pm yesterday (27 December) to reports of a casualty on the tracks.
"Paramedics also attended and a man was taken to a local hospital. His injuries are deemed life-changing but not life-threatening.
"This incident is not being treated as suspicious."
Trains were disrupted until around 8pm on the line.
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