Not guilty to boot!
Posted on 07/22/2025 9:01:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The horrific July 7 incident unfolded just before 5:30 p.m. as 24-year-old Ventura native Elieah Boyd pushed her 80-pound electric bike across the train tracks near Seaward Avenue.
“There was no train horn. It was like three seconds from when I saw the train to when it happened,” she told KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell. “I just happened to have my hand still on the bike as the train goes by. The train barely clipped the bike, just enough to take my arm completely off.”
Just two weeks out from the traumatic injury, her arm now in a wrist-to-shoulder sling, the smiling 24-year-old said she remembers looking down and not seeing her arm, thinking to herself that there was no way what had just happened was real.
Fortunately, a retired firefighter had been walking with Boyd and as police and paramedics arrived at the scene to rush her to the hospital, he told the first responders to look for her arm.
Police later said that her severed limb was located near the crash site.
Boyd was airlifted to UC Irvine Medical Center where she endured 10 hours of surgery, and while she has at least two more surgeries scheduled in the coming weeks, she says she already has some feeling back in arm.
“Kind of like jolts of energy is what it feels like,”
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If she didn’t hear the train then maybe silent, electric train too !!
Darwin nominee ?
The real tragedy is that her e-bike is now all smashed to smithereens.
(insert sad face)
Note to self: look both ways before crossing railroad tracks.
“There was no train horn”
My house is exactly 1/2 mile from a freight line and it vibrates my house every single time one passes through......I would submit a train horn should never be necessary if your on the tracks. SMH
I think trains usually only blow their horn when they are approaching designated crossings.
So, she only depends on her ears when crossing RR tracks? Sounds like she was high on weed.
So, she only depends on her ears when crossing RR tracks? Sounds like she was high on weed.
I see tons of people in that age group out and about, fully absorbed by one or more digital devices (smartphone, headphones...). Proto-zombies.
How else does one not notice a train coming at them before crossing the tracks?
She had ear pods in maybe?
A. She didn’t see any red flashing lights as the train approached?
B. That ‘retired fire fighter’ was a little old for her, but as luck would have it, she probably owes her life to him/her.
Cool under pressure and got someone to retrieve that arm before it was too late.
I don’t think I’d want her to teach me how to surf.
Could be tracks along a shore area and lots of crossing in non-designated areas.
She’s friggin’ lucky to be alive at all.
Stop look listen repeat
Then cross
I expected a shark in this story somewhere.....it IS shark week after all.
They taught us that in elementary school
Boyd was airlifted to UC Irvine Medical Center where she endured 10 hours of surgery, and while she has at least two more surgeries scheduled in the coming weeks, she says she already has some feeling back in arm.
Well so much for her being Def Leppard’s drummer.
I've been in that area before, and as I suspected, a quick look at Google shows it's not a passenger / light rail, but a real freight train that hit her.
Moreover, every cross walk has train-gates and flashing lights.
So indeed, how did this kid get hit? I would guess she was wearing ear-buds or noise cancelling headphones turned up to 10, plus marijuana use.
Call me cynical, but freight trains don't just sneak up on you.
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