Roe tried to resuscitate train wreck victim

Rep. Phil Roe suspected it was already too late to save the young man lying near the wreckage of a train-truck collision this week, but he began to administer CPR anyway, reports the News Sentinel.

A retired physician, Roe continued working with the patient until EMTs arrive. But his first impression had been right.

The man, Christopher Foley, 28, of Louisa County, Va., had died when the garbage truck in which he was a passenger was struck by an Amtrak train carrying Roe and other Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia.

“It was really frustrating to not be able to do anything for this man,” Roe recalled Thursday.

To Foley’s family, Roe sends this message: “I don’t think he suffered at all. I think (death) was instantaneous.”