HISNDALE, Ill. (WLS) -- Hinsdale police released video of a commuter crawling under a stopped train to make it on board.

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Police said it happened at the Garfield Crossing in the downtown area on Monday at about 8:20 a.m.

The video shows a woman dangerously crawling under a stopped train, police said.

The presumption is she was racing to get onto the inbound Chicago train on the other side of the tracks.

"We do on occasion see people go underneath trains. Sometimes with stopped freights they'll climb over the ladders between cars," Hisndale police Sgt. Thomas Krefft said.

There is a national push this week to raise awareness about rail safety in Illinois.

Dr. Lanny Wilson, lost his 14-year-old daugher Lauren in 1994, when the ca

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