SMITHSBURG, Md. (AP) — Police say a deaf woman walking on the railroad tracks was fatally struck by an oncoming freight train in the western Maryland town of Smithsburg.
Washington County Sheriff’s Detective Howard Ward said Tuesday that 51-year-old Kathy Lynn Williams of Smithsburg apparently didn’t see the CSX train or hear several warning blasts from its horn.
He says Williams was struck about 1 p.m. Monday while walking down the middle of the tracks toward the northbound train.
Ward says a video recording from the CSX locomotive shows the woman looking straight down as she walked.
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9 comments:
Sounds like a suicide to me. She would have been able to feel the vibrations of the train coming!
... & dumb (stupid !)
seems she must have been blind also
Well it didn't sound like it to her. Why would you walk on the train tracks if your deaf. That's like a guy with no arms and legs saying I think I'll take a dip in the pool.
It is kinda' like the saying,
If you are too stupid to come in out of the rain . . . then you will get wet.
Deaf - OK
Was she also blind?
3:21, you mean Bob?
It says she had her head down. I would guess she was using her phone?
4:01 - BWAHAHAHAHAHAAH I needed that
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