Posted on 07/23/2025 5:28:28 PM PDT by xxqqzz
A California surf instructor had her arm ripped off after being hit by an Amtrak train while she pushed her e-bike across the tracks.
Elieah Boyd, 24, said she was in complete disbelief to look down and see she was missing her arm — which was found several feet away, allowing it to be reattached.
California surf instructor Elieah Boyd, 24, lost her arm in a freak accident when she was hit by an Amtrak train.
“There was no train horn. It was like three seconds from when I saw the train to when it happened,” she told KTLA.
“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.”
The sickening injury took place just before 5:30 p.m. July 7 as Boyd was pushing her 80-pound electric bike across the train tracks in Ventura.
Miraculously, a retired firefighter had been walking with her at the time and called paramedics.
Boyd underwent 10 hours of surgery to reattach the limb.
Boyd was airlifted to UC Irvine Medical Center, where she underwent a grueling, 10-hour surgery to reattach the limb.
She still has a further two surgeries scheduled in the coming weeks, but said she already has some feeling back in her arm.
Boyd says she is desperate to get back in the ocean.
She recalled looking down and not believing what she was seeing.
“Kind of like jolts of energy is what it feels like. I do have feeling internally that it’s healing,” she said.
As she recovers, the avid surfer and surfing coach says she is desperate to get back in the ocean.
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Those sneaky trains. Like ninjas they are.
I bet she won’t do that again.
Stay off the tracks you nitwit.
The engineer didn’t even try to swerve.
I do wonder whether the train was in a no-horn zone. And whether it was an official crossing. May even have to read the story.
Cannot rely on sound alone when crossing any rail road crossing, by car, on foot or otherwise. Stop, look, stop and look again, taking several seconds to SEE if a train is approaching.
Obviously she’s deaf, dumb and blind, so a horn wouldn’t have helped her.
Stealth locomotives are just wrong for us, man!
Don't bother. None of that is in there. It's a story of a nasty train hunting down this girl, and making her its victim.
The ground doth shake when they approach.
Trains are blameless holy creatures.
Those two railroad rails are a clear warning.
If she was crossing the tracks on a road, he would not have had to get off her bike.
“””Miraculously, a retired firefighter had been walking with her at the time and called paramedics. “”””
TWO ADULTS crossed the tracks and didn’t look both ways for a train. Maybe I’m lucky, no train has ever been able to sneak up on me.
The problem is how the sound waves travel. I saw a video once. By the time you heard the train, it was a couple hundred feet away.
Good thing she didn’t do that thing we used to do when we were kids (1930s & 1940s) and lie down with her ear on the rail...
Of course, in those days, there were only steam locomotives, and they could not sneak up on anyone...
If she’s smart, she won’t.
If you get hit by an Amtrak train.... it’s all on you. They aren’t sneaky.
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