Posted on 09/16/2012 7:01:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A woman apparently walking and looking down at her cellphone was fatally struck by an Amtrak train in Ventura on Saturday.
Responding officers said they found the victim, identified only as a 28-year-old woman from Ventura, underneath the train. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the train conductor, the southbound train was traveling at about 40 mph around 5:15 p.m. as it approached the Amtrak station near the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Harbor Boulevard, when the victim was seen walking on the tracks.
The conductor began sounding the warning horn, but the victim appeared to be looking down at a cellphone and did not make any attempts to get off of the tracks, police said. The conductor said he tried to make an emergency stop, but could not get the train to stop in time.
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This is yet another setback for Obama.
Here hold my beer - here hold my cellphone.
Honestly, I’m surprised deaths like this do not happen more often
At least she didn’t die of cancer.
Another death of an American by goverment vehicle. Was it a hybrid at least?
Another death of an American by goverment vehicle. Was it a hybrid at least?
“Walking along the tracks”. I would say its more likely suicide than distraction by cell phone. Who walks along he tracks?
I bet she doesn’t do that again....
Lots of people walk along or near tracks because they provide a nice level path. Women generally choose forms of suicide that are not disfiguring. If a woman is killed by a train, it is probably unintended, at least on her part.
Texting while transpotting.
Democrats one down
RIP to the lady. Prayers for the engineer who will now have a lifetime to replay the final images.
I really feel sorry for that crew in the engine
Don`t understand how she could have ignored that
horn you know they were blasting constantly at the last
Can you hear me now?
I guess that I misunderstand the job of a Train Conductor.
“Trn sb here ne min”
I agree with the suicide. There is no shortage of of better walking places there in that area. And a train horn up close would snap anyone, out of ANY distraction.
The Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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