Posted on 04/11/2014 9:17:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A California woman was struck and killed Wednesday by a freight train while wearing headphones as she jogged along busy tracks near a popular hiking trail.
Janaki Rose Hayes, 27, of Truckee, was wearing headphones that fully covered her ears and did not hear the blaring horn as the steel beast bared down on her around 1.45 p.m., police said.
Investigators believe she was jogging towards a trail for the bulk of her workout and that the death was an accident, sources told the Sacramento Bee.
Hayes, who had recently moved from Oregon to the small town just north of Lake Tahoe, was just short of the pedestrian bridge when the Union Pacific train caught up to her, cops said.
‘We concluded from our investigation that her intent was to cross the river at some point to access the Legacy Trail for a jog,’ Police Chief Adam McGill in a news release.
She was headed westbound on the rails. The operators slowed the train but could not stop in time to avoid hitting her.
‘It appears the train operators did not contribute to this accident and did all they could to avoid it,’ said McGill.
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Mark Twain and Chauncey Depew
I well remember my first walkman...
Apparently not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
and stop women from being run down by Tea Party trains!
Good gosh. I wear headphones on my walks and have the volume so low, I can hear an electric golf cart approaching. I am also blessed with exceptional hearing, after almost 40 years in the military. We always wore hearing protection when on the range, running generators, or around diesel engine equipment.
I bet that train was carrying “Fracked Crude” too!
Willie Green wouldn’t blame the retrain
You can feel the horns blaring usually
Hah. I instantly recognized that picture! Is that bad?
I was talking to an train engineer. He said people are aware that roads have traffic on them - they see it all the time, and are careful; starting off as little children.
But train tracks are different. Most people only encounter train tracks rarely. And when they do - they are almost always empty of trains. So there is not a perceived threat. The keyword of course being “almost”.
Looks like a classic case of allmänfarlig ödeläggelse.
Gesundheit !
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