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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...

The horrific July 7 incident unfolded just before 5:30 p.m. as 24-year-old Ventura native Elieah Boyd pushed her 80-pound electric bike across the train tracks near Seaward Avenue. “There was no train horn. It was like three seconds from when I saw the train to when it happened,” she told KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell. “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.” Just two weeks out from the traumatic injury, her arm now in a wrist-to-shoulder sling, the smiling...