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anyone know what happened to todays 98 - service disruption

It hit a person running on the tracks with there headphones on in Frostproof, FL.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/15 15:39 by Dewman45.

What exactly to these idiots think the tracks are there for?

As a path to guide them as they run with their headphones, silly.

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Florida Jogger Wearing Headphones Killed by Train
REUTERS
MARCH 31, 2015

> ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida jogger wearing headphones was struck and
> killed by an Amtrak train, apparently unable to hear the conductor
> sounding the horn, authorities said on Tuesday.
>
> Edwardo Salazar, 26, of Frostproof in central Florida, died on Monday
> afternoon while jogging on the tips of the wood crossbeams outside
> the track’s metal rails, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported.
>
> Salazar’s headphones were plugged into his iPod, according to the
> report.
>
> "The headphones likely led to him not hearing the train," said
> sheriff spokeswoman Carrie Horstman, adding Salazar might not have
> known that a train’s girth is wider than the metal rails.*
>
> The conductor on Amtrak’s 98 Silver Meteor train traveling from Miami
> to New York tried unsuccessfully to stop the train before the impact,
> according to the sheriff’s office, which is investigating the
> accident.
>
> Deaths and serious injuries among pedestrians listening to headphones
> are a known and increasing hazard. Researchers at the University of
> Maryland School of Medicine in 2012 found that injuries and deaths
> involving pedestrians wearing headphones tripled between 2004 and
> 2011.
>
> Pedestrians were killed in three-fourths of the incidents studied,
> the researchers reported.

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*...thus providing one definitive way of fixing STUPID...

That has to be tough on the crew and the first responders.  Condolences to all.