BIDDEFORD -- A mother says the young man hit by Amtrak's Downeaster in Maine was listening to an MP3 player and didn't hear the train.

Police say 19-year-old Gary Bussell was struck by the train Wednesday morning at the Main Street crossing in Biddeford as he was walking to school. He suffered a broken leg, broken elbow and broken pelvis.

His mother, Laura Gerry, says he'd received the MP3 player for Christmas. She believes he was spared from worse injuries because he landed in a snowbank after being hit by the train.

The Downeaster train connects Portland to Boston, Mass., and has stops in New Hampshire.