In the fall of 2015, 61-year-old Donald LeRoy Brown was riding his motorized wheelchair across the train tracks south of the Murray Central TRAX station.
The wheelchair hit a hole and tipped over, spilling Brown onto the middle of the tracks, where he was hit by a train.
His family filed a lawsuit against the Utah Transit Authority in 3rd District Court on Tuesday, claiming that train officials were responsible for not filling in the hole that caused Brown’s Oct. 2 spill.
A woman was with Brown when he fell on the northbound tracks, according to the lawsuit.