Posted on 03/13/2006 9:40:38 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I know that the train makes a lot of vibration - but if the tracks are near urban roads, they will be constantly vibrating from nearby heavy truck traffic. Also, if she was just to the side of the rails, the vibration would be dampened by the gravel and concrete. This also happened to a hearing girl in Dallas - she was wearing a walkman and never heard the train coming. In that case, the track was also in an urban area, so the vibration and background noise was constant as well...
Possibly to deter others from going there.
A deaf person to walk alongside railroad tracks
or:
A hearing person to walk alongside railroad tracks?
Think about it for a few minutes and get back to me.
A train makes so much vibration when it is coming, that there is no way she could not feel it. I don't think you need to see or hear it to know it is coming.
I think she was either deep in thought or she was depressed and committed as you say suicide.
Maybe she was on medication for something that made her out of it.
What a shame in any case and what a pain that will cause her family and parents whose life will NEVER be the same.
That's called "tragedy". Whatever giggles arise are rooted in evil, a delight in others flawed judgement.
So wouldn't she have felt the vibrations from the ground shaking, or thought to check behind herself occasionally? I never paid much attention but it seems to me that the ground and even the air vibrate.
A college student with a walkman was killed by a train when he crossed the tracks that cut across one section of the campus. The state of California paid out $1,500,000 to build an underpass this last summer so this wouldn't happen again.
There is so much vibration as a train comes that either way the girl should have been able to tell.
She was either affected by medication she was taking or upset deep in thought and discounted the vibrations and ignored them.
It could even have been suicide.
I am a former RR employee. One would just not believe how people can seem to be unaware of danger near tracks. People actually jog between the rails, headphones on, head down, totally unaware and some have died.
RIP beautiful girl.
No, I would not.
This thread had absolutely nothing to do with the Darwin Awards. Nobody except you even brought it up.
And you did it in a way that tried to prop yourself up on a high moral horse, like you're above the muck, when you're the only person making the muck.
So, no, I phrased my question exactly as I meant it. And I noticed you never answered it.
The handicapped should be exempted from the Darwins...with very few exceptions. God rest this young lady's soul.
"A hearing person to walk alongside railroad tracks?" A "hearing person" with an ipod jogging/walking down the street would be less aware.
I'm just wondering if she was pushed by someone, purposefully or accidently.
And what was she doing there in the first place? How many of us women go out alone and walk on railroad tracks? Was she meeting someone?
She was a real beauty. Was she having romantic problems? Or did she catch the eye of some itinerant also walking the rails?
I hope some poster here catches and posts a follow-up article with more detail.
Leni
Young people at some point in life think some minor thing is the end of their world, like perhaps the loss of her first boyfriend to another girl.
Could have been anything, but she sure must have either committed suicide, been on heavy medication or in deep thought. Nobody typically ignored the vibrations of a train coming. Even to a deaf girl that would be massive.
I once had a job that required me to work near the Santa Fe mainline. You'd be surprised how close a fast train can come upon you before you become aware of it, especially if you're not facing it. There's not always a lot of vibration nor a lot of noise.
That's true, it does vibrate. She either was simply not paying attention to her surroundings for whatever reason, or she possibly wanted to end her life and this was the route she chose to do it. We will know more about this story in a day or two. I have deaf friends in Austin who I plan to contact tomorrow to see if they have more information about her.
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