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Woman apparently distracted by cellphone killed by Amtrak train in Ventura
KABC) ^ | Saturday, September 08, 2012

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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1 posted on 09/16/2012 7:01:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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This is yet another setback for Obama.


2 posted on 09/16/2012 7:04:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: BenLurkin

Here hold my beer - here hold my cellphone.


3 posted on 09/16/2012 7:05:49 AM PDT by monocle
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Honestly, I’m surprised deaths like this do not happen more often


4 posted on 09/16/2012 7:08:40 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - 1984)
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To: BenLurkin

At least she didn’t die of cancer.


5 posted on 09/16/2012 7:08:45 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Another death of an American by goverment vehicle. Was it a hybrid at least?


6 posted on 09/16/2012 7:14:23 AM PDT by Blacksheep (There are no coincidences......)
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To: Redmen4ever

Another death of an American by goverment vehicle. Was it a hybrid at least?


7 posted on 09/16/2012 7:14:29 AM PDT by Blacksheep (There are no coincidences......)
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To: BenLurkin

“Walking along the tracks”. I would say its more likely suicide than distraction by cell phone. Who walks along he tracks?


8 posted on 09/16/2012 7:14:32 AM PDT by Adams (Fight on!)
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To: BenLurkin

I bet she doesn’t do that again....


9 posted on 09/16/2012 7:15:41 AM PDT by circlecity
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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.


10 posted on 09/16/2012 7:18:22 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is neo-lysenkoism.)
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To: BenLurkin

Texting while transpotting.

Democrats one down


11 posted on 09/16/2012 7:20:01 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: BenLurkin

RIP to the lady. Prayers for the engineer who will now have a lifetime to replay the final images.


12 posted on 09/16/2012 7:20:42 AM PDT by JPG (Make it happen)
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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


13 posted on 09/16/2012 7:23:04 AM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: BenLurkin

Can you hear me now?


14 posted on 09/16/2012 7:24:10 AM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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The conductor began sounding the warning horn,.... The conductor said he tried to make an emergency stop, but could not get the train to stop in time.

I guess that I misunderstand the job of a Train Conductor.

15 posted on 09/16/2012 7:24:18 AM PDT by Rio (Tempis fugit.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Trn sb here ne min”


16 posted on 09/16/2012 7:30:48 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Adams
Heck, those kids Clinton's associates killed in in Mena were accused of sleeping on the railroad tracks.
17 posted on 09/16/2012 7:34:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Adams

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723493/posts


18 posted on 09/16/2012 7:36:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Adams

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.


19 posted on 09/16/2012 7:38:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Flag_This

The Winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 09/16/2012 7:39:09 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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