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#1 pennyk

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Posted 30 March 2015 - 05:18 PM

Tampa News Channel 8, 3/30/15:

 

 

 

Jogger wearing headphones, hit, killed by Amtrak train in Frostproof

 

Polk County Sheriff's Office homicide detectives are conducting a death investigation after a pedestrian was struck by an Amtrak passenger train.

On Monday, March 30, the Amtrak 98 Silver Meteor train from Miami to New York, made its last stop in Sebring and was heading to its next stop in Winter Haven just after 12 p.m.

The train was traveling in the Big Sun Ray area of  Frostproof just under the U.S. 27 overpass (nearest cross street: Charles Street) when the conductor saw an adult male who appeared to be jogging alongside the tracks on the outer wood cross beams. The conductor blew the train horn several times, to no avail. 

 

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Edited by pennyk, 30 March 2015 - 05:18 PM.


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Posted 30 March 2015 - 11:52 PM

So the first question should be why the conductor was blowing the train horn, and not the engineer.



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