Wheelchair malfunction on Puyallup train tracks may have caused man’s death

Richie Geiger, 59, was struck and killed by a train at a Puyallup railroad crossing on October 21. A witness told KIRO 7 that his motorized wheelchair jerked and appeared to stop working as he crossed the tracks; two bystanders tried to move him but could not. Police said video showed the chair starting and stopping intermittently and concluded the death was a tragic accident.