21 year old Lindsey Marie Michaels was killed train hopping with her boyfriend on a slow coal drag in Pittsburgh last night.
I was kinda surprised when I read .... "Twenty-six people were killed and 19 others were injured after being struck by trains while trespassing on tracks or railroad property in Pennsylvania last year. The state ranked fifth in the country for trespassing incidents in 2016."
What a shame ... what a waste of a future ...
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operation life saver states "About every 3 hours, a person or vehicle is hit by a train."
people refuse to understand how big and heavy these machines are!
it is sad.
I think that is an old photo. She was 21, petite, 2:30 AM and they had been drinking. A pity, a young life wasted but what can you do ??
It's strange that this story would go national, however:
She was blond,pretty, and a supposedly very bright med student.
Of the 2 Pittsburgh papers, one closed comments, the other allowed comments which quickly went downhill.
One comment stated that she fancied herself a bit of a daredevil.
The man injured was apparently her boyfriend.
Certain friends of mine thought train-hopping was fun back in the mid-70s, it took a scary ride on a coal hopper through Falls Cut tunnel to cure them of that idea.
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