[PGR88]

If she didn’t hear the train then maybe silent, electric train too !!

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.

[George from New England]

Hmm — “pushed bike across tracks” sounds like it might have been dead batteries, in need of a charge. We must now put bike charging stations at the beach too and she’d have been fine !

[ponygirl]

I used to live in Ventura, and Seaward was my favorite beach. To get to the beach, you drive Seaward UNDER the train tracks, so there is no designated RR crossing here, no flashing lights and bells. The train would not blow a horn here. The road includes a safe bike path, which she obviously chose not to take. It looks like she took the dirt path that skirts the overpass, meaning she was dragging her 80 pound bike across 4 rails and gravel. And those trains go FAST once they get through town.

Man, I loved living there. I hate that California has been so destroyed.