Last modified: Saturday, November 8, 2008 2:37 AM EST Mansfield police and fire officials stand by the scene of a fatality at the Mansfield Train Station Friday afternoon. (Staff photo by Mark Stockwell) Woman killed by train BY MATT KAKLEY AND DAVID LINTON SUN CHRONICLE STAFF MANSFIELD - A woman was killed after being struck by a high-speed Acela train traveling south on the tracks near the Mansfield station Friday afternoon. At 3:40 p.m., police first received a call that a person had been on the tracks and had been hit by an Amtrak Acela train. The train had been traveling from Boston to New York City, and ultimately Washington, D.C. Police had not identified the victim as of Friday evening. The body was in such a condition that police were only able to describe the victim as a white female. According to witnesses, however, the victim was a woman in her late teens or early 20s. "I've never seen something like this in my life," said one on-looker who did not wish to give her name. "People were just screaming." The accident occurred on track one, near the platform where riders wait for trains. It is against the law to be on the tracks and the train station has several warning signs. Train traffic was stopped in both directions for about 30 minutes as a result of the accident, Peter Roy of the MBTA police said. Friday night, police said they were not certain how fast the train was traveling at the time of the accident, but that the maximum allowable speed through the area is 150 mph. Roy said the initial investigation has shown no mechanical problems with the tracks or signals. None of the 264 passengers on the Acela were injured, according to Cliff Cole, an Amtrak spokesperson. Amtrak trains were delayed up to an hour during the late afternoon commute. MBTA commuter trains also experienced delays. Massachusetts Transit Police were at the scene investigating, as well Mansfield police and fire officials, Amtrak police, Massachusetts State Police and the Foxboro Fire Department. The investigation was being led by Lt. Mark Gillespie of the Massachusetts Transit Police. Directors from the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home in Attleboro Falls picked-up the remains under an arrangement with the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The fatality is the third train-related fatality in Mansfield in the past two years. On Sept. 6, a 21-year-old Mansfield woman was killed when she was struck by an MBTA commuter rail train near her home. In January 2007, a 15-year-old boy was killed by an Acela train as he crossed the station's tracks.