Posted on 03/15/2017 12:36:27 PM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 03/15/2017 1:24:54 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
NAVASOTA, TX -- The mother of a 19-year-old woman says her daughter was killed when she was struck by a train while having photos taken of her on the tracks in a bid to launch a modeling career.
Hakamie Stevenson told The Eagle newspaper that her daughter, Fredzania Thompson, attended Blinn College in Bryan but wanted to put her education on hold to begin modeling.
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She can still be a model.
Maybe for hamburger or something.
She’s a little big for a model. Just saying.
Wonder if a shoe got caught in a track or something
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Two tracks. She moved from one to the other which also had a train coming.
She didn’t look it seems.
Maybe it was one of those quantum trains that exist at every point along the tracks all the time, and materialize suddenly when you stand on the tracks. Like in Roadrunner cartoons, y'know.
When I was a kid (59 years ago) we used to play by the tracks of Southern Pacific in El-Paso. A railway worker told us “when your hear and see a train look the other way because you can not hear the second train because the nearer train is all you hear.” Dual track railways will kill you if you do not look both ways. I heeded his advice.
Someone was going to hit it...
This model is 1/2 off...
Freepers please take caution.
A lot of jokes are being made and questions about how this could happen.
It can happen to anyone. Do not take train safety lightly.
I have been through some safety training in this regard. Trains do not operate on a predictable schedule. That is, you can not know when a train will be coming.
A similar incident to this happened on a feature film shoot called “Midnight Rider”. This was a major production shot in 2014 with recently-deceased actor, William Hurt, who was present and witnessed the accident. The director went to jail, and the first AD got 10 years probation.
The director failed to get permission from the track owners. This has to be done. There is generally communication with train personnel, and special safety personnel must be present.
If a track is in service, there must be personnel with radios at some distance in both directions who are able to signal well in advance if the track needs to be cleared.
Remember, it is not just people who must be clear of the tracks. All equipment must be removed. If hit, pieces of equipment become flying projectiles that can and have killed people.
One final piece of advice on train safety. If you find yourself in the proximity of an imminent train crash, resist your natural instinct to run AWAY from the train. Be sure to get yourself on the other side of anything in the path of the train, such as a stalled car. Otherwise you may be hit by whatever is in the train’s path when it collides with it.
She nailed it but, her her career spiked and went off the rails...
FK me that is horrible but,made me LOL!!!
People should not be on railroad tracks. Trains can not stop on a dime it takes a half mile to stop a train.
How do you not see or hear a train ? Sad if true.
A female Darwin award contestant? That’s unusual, especially since the guy didn’t die with her.
Anyway, his wife committed suicide by laying down on a railroad track. Then several years later, his son committed suicide the very same way.............I thought that was very strange.
I can’t imagine living with that.
Some people are hoarders. It runs in my family (and my wife’s family). There are a lot worse traits.
How come black kids never have the same last name as either of their parents?
Then again, they dont hapve the same last name as any if their 8 brothers and sisters. Familupy of 10 and every one of them with a different last name.
It boggles the mind.
Family with a one track mind...
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