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 nothing else she should have felt the vibrations a moving train generates.
Nearly turned into the Hemingway classic ...
Stupid(?), but certainly fortunate. Dodged a 30mm round.
Amazing what great doctors and modern medicine can do.
Not all crossings are set up for trains to blow their horns. Normally, a big white sign with a W on it is used for the engineer to blow the horn.
Even more amazing is the situations that can occur to get people into a condition where they need the fantastic skills. Sadly, the help isn’t always on time.
MY DAILY train-—south—then north-—is less than 1/2 mile.
Vibrates the foundation.
Apparently, a retired firefighter didn't see the train as well. What older man would allow a woman to walk into a train if he was walking with her.
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