RIP
...then all of a sudden, LIFE comes and smacks you in the face, right about the same time as everything is getting better.
Please, please, PLEASE tell me this is a satire?!?!?!
Why in the world would anyone walk so close to railroad tracks that they risk being hit by a train?
RIP
Very sad.
I'm so sorry to hear this - it is so horribly dangerous to walk along the tracks at any time, but for the hearing impaired even a sidewalk can be dangerous, let alone railroad tracks.
I was profoundly deaf in my early childhood (unknown to my parents until discovered later), and corrected by surgery when I was five. I cannot count how many times I was nearly run over by bikes, cars, and even pedestrians because I could not hear them coming. As a hearing person, I really take these things for granted, but it makes all the difference when out in the world.
May God comfort her family.
Awful. Simply awful and sad. RIP
All I can say is RIP. Very, very sad.
This sounds like it belongs on the next episode of "My Name Is Earl"
Leni
She must have been lost in though, because a train makes a lot of vibration.
How can she be walking near a railroad and not be watching?
Boyfriend troubles or family troubles making her less aware maybe?
Sad.
Just too sad for words. Prayers for her family and friends.
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.
Trains are very dangerous even if you can hear. As a part of a research project, I once went through the death records for the year 1918 in Arlington, TX. Turned out the top two causes of death were the big flu epidemic of that year ... and the railroad tracks. I've forgotten now how many people got struck by trains but it was a lot.
No one apparently has brought up a related matter.
Over-the-top safety regulations required weed-control maintenance people working on a railway to use hearing protection in SE Texas. A few years ago, a man working such a task, and wearing such hearing protection, was killed by a train despite the train whistle sounding and frantic yelling and waving by his workmates.
Suicide.
There is no other concievable explanation.
Okay... for starters there is quite a bit here to talk about and no one should get all hostile.
I think it is crazy for this beautiful woman to get whacked by a train. Has anyone heard Larry the Cable Guy talk about the guy that got hit by a train? Basically trains don't just jump out at ya. The phrase walking "near" the tracks is bogus. Unless you are trying to be technical. To get whacked by a train you have to be practically "on" the tracks. If you are close enough to get whacked AND you don't know there is a train coming... you have more problems than just deafness.
I am a grown man with damn few fears in life... but let me say that just being in proximity to train tracks sends my senses into "alert" phase.
There is more to this story. I feel sorry for this girl... but something is up. Either depression or unchartable folly (being nice there) or something else.