A TEACHER has been killed after being hit by a train in North Yorkshire.

An inquest opened into the death of Kathryn Helen Snodgrass Rose Lane, Church Fenton, this morning (January 22).

The court heard how the 48-year-old primary school teacher died on January 9 this year after she was seen to dive onto the railway tracks and was hit by a train on the tracks near Tadcaster.


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Assistant coroner, Richard Watson, said the provisional cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries.

An inquest was opened at Northallerton Coroner’s Court today (January 22) and was adjourned after a short hearing.