A 61-year-old Sulphur man was fatally struck by a train Friday night near Post Oak Road.

Sulphur Police Major Jason Gully said Terry Adams was walking on the railroad bridge over the drainage canal just east of the Post Oak Road railroad crossing when he was struck. Waterproofing Drainage Board

“An eastbound Amtrak train struck Adams as he began to try and run off the bridge, out of the path of the train,” Gully said.

Wholesale Gravel Grid Adams pronounced deceased at the scene by an investigator with the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.