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1junes at 12.17.08 - 4:49 pm
SoCal Woman Stuck on Tracks Called 911 Before Death
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A Lake Forest woman who died from injuries suffered when her car was struck by a freight train in Anaheim dialed 911 to report her predicament and was being urged by a dispatcher to get out of the car when the phone went dead, police said Tuesday.
Linda Kruger-Small, 68, was in a 2005 Honda Civic that got stuck on Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks just south of Lakeview Street and Orangethorpe Avenue Monday. The car was struck by a freight train traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez said police received a 911 call from a woman asking for help because she was stuck on railroad tracks.
A dispatcher who was advising her to get out of the car was able to hear a man trying to help the woman -- but then the line went dead, Martinez said.
Motorists who stops at the signal at Orangethorpe Avenue, a T-intersection, have to cross the tracks before turning right or left. Martinez said the woman may have miscalculated and instead of driving over the tracks to turn on the street, turned right or left on the tracks, the sergeant said.
Had that happened, "the car could have become disabled on the tracks," he said. She may have not been able to move the car forward or back up.
The bystander, who unsuccessfully tried to get the woman to get out before the train struck the car, pulled her from the vehicle after it was hit, Martinez said.
The woman was taken to a hospital where she died.
Martinez emphasized that until a full investigation is complete police will not know for sure what happened.
Lena Kent of BNSF Railways said Monday that the crossing is in a designated quiet zone, where the conductor does not normally sound a whistle, but he did when he saw the car on the tracks.
To qualify for quiet zone designation, the crossing has enhanced safety equipment including a concrete median. The equipment is maintained by the railroad and was working, Kent said.
"Why it was sitting there, we don't know," Kent said, adding that the woman would have had to drive onto the tracks before the gate arms lowered.
Martinez did not know how much time Kruger-Small would have had between getting on the tracks before the arms lowered and when the train struck the car.
He said he has driven it and it appears to give ample warning, but once events were set in motion, "things happened very fast."
Police were still searching for additional witnesses, Martinez said.
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ok so i loled at the link headline
the story makes me look like an ass
"Womans car dies on tracks in path of an oncoming train. Dials 911 instead of GETTING OUT OF HER CAR >.< "
anybody have any idea what happened? or any guesses?
1junes12.17.08 - 4:51 pm
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she was moving and the train stopped in her way?
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 4:55 pm
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HEY DON'T LAUGH, IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED THIS WAY.
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 4:56 pm
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eddie's reasoning for the crash is about as funny as the accident itself..
the nature of the accident is funny...
1junes12.17.08 - 4:57 pm
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MANY TIMES IN LIFE, THINGS ARE NOT THE WAY THEY APPEAR.
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 5:01 pm
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starting with the size of your genitals.
1junes12.17.08 - 5:19 pm
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LULZ!!!
i just don't understand how someone can be so stupid. that's like holding the barrel of a gun up to your face and pulling the trigger.
coldcut12.17.08 - 5:20 pm
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ESPECIALLY IF YOUR ORIENTAL, RIGHT?
JUST JOKING ITUNES.
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 5:20 pm
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no thats like trying to fix a flat
with your feet still clipped in.
1junes12.17.08 - 5:23 pm
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the size of my genitals is between me and my appendages and sexual partners.
1junes12.17.08 - 5:24 pm
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no thats like trying to fix a flat
with your feet still clipped in.
1junes
12.17.08 - 8:23 pm
LOL!
definitely, haha.
coldcut12.17.08 - 5:28 pm
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This clearly shows the stupidity of people. She thought she was safe in her car. I'm sure there's plenty more that would have had the same fate in the same predicament.
User112.17.08 - 5:39 pm
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she was 68!! her mind isn't as sharp as ours. i can't believe you guys. that could have been your fucking grandma... would you call her stupid?
*shakes his head*
Jazzy Phat Nastee12.17.08 - 5:45 pm
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WITCH MAKES ME THINK "SHOULD OLDER PEOPLE REALLY BE DRIVING CARS?"
REMEMBER THAT GUY IN SANTA MONICA?
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 5:48 pm
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"she was 68!!!"
dude, 68 is the new 40. the elderly are a lot more with it than you think, especially in the last 20 years. I'll bet she would have done the same thing when she was 20. some people are stupid.
toweliesbong12.17.08 - 5:52 pm
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68 is not that old for driving. It's their health that should be the deciding factor, not age. I seen people in their 90s that are capable of driving. Also seen people in their 30s that shouldn't be driving too!
User112.17.08 - 5:54 pm
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Here in my car.
I feel safest of all.
I can lock all my doors.
It's the only way to live.
In cars.
ruinedbyidiots12.17.08 - 5:56 pm
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When I'm driving in my car, I don't care about any thing
When I'm speeding in my car, I don't care about anyone
Man and machine, machine and man
We're always together they can't understand
Give anything for her velvet seats
Do anything just to hear her squeal
Man and machine, machine and man
We're always together they can't understand
My foot's on the pedal, such a crazy thing
I'm never gonna stop loving this machine
Wheels are rolling with a rockabye motion
And I love my car
Sirens screaming throught the city speeding
But I'll never stop
Go through girls like I do through fines
But I'll never leave my car
My car and me such a crazy thing and I'm...
When I'm driving in my car, I don't care about any thing
When I'm speeding in my car, I don't care about anyone
Judge on the bench made clear his demands
We're gonna have to have your license young man
Listen judge, don't you have a heart
I ain't a criminal, just in love with a car
Now I'm back on the streets behind the wheel
The papaer's gone but I still got the feel
A life of danger, life of speed life of trouble for my
car and me.
toweliesbong12.17.08 - 5:59 pm
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uhhh she knew she was in trouble
not only was there a bystander trying to tell her to GTFO
she dialed 911 herself.
1junes12.17.08 - 6:21 pm
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maybe she thought the person trying to get her out of her car was trying to carjack her?
old people are irrational and get flustered and confused pretty easy.
ruinedbyidiots12.17.08 - 6:21 pm
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seriously! she was just fucking dumb.
it's so cold! i think i'm gonna turn my oven on and open it up to heat my house.
common fucking sense!
coldcut12.17.08 - 6:23 pm
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BE SURE TO LIGHT THE PILOT FIRST, OR ELSE WE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT YOU ON MIDNIGHT RIDAZZ, PLEASE.
eddieboyinla12.17.08 - 6:28 pm
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"police received a 911 call from a woman asking for help because she was stuck on railroad tracks."
the evidence points to
DEE DEE DEEEEEEEE
1junes12.17.08 - 6:28 pm
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i just saw a news report on carbon monoxide
please don't be a dee dee dee
1junes12.17.08 - 6:29 pm
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if the carbon monoxide doesn't kill me, i'll light a match to guide my way in the dark later on tonite.
i kid, i kid!!!
coldcut12.17.08 - 6:31 pm
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junu, remind me to punch you in the arm really hard the next time i see you for posting a bunch of fucking carlos mencia bullshit. that dude is worse than your html trickery.
ruinedbyidiots12.17.08 - 10:02 pm
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have you ever noticed that carlos mencia has totally ripped off dave attel?
He talks just like him, but dave attel is about a million times one thousand times infinity times better
la duderina12.18.08 - 12:18 am
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not a fan, i just couldnt help but think of deedeedee and well thats what google images returns.
1junes12.18.08 - 9:38 am
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I miss Dave Atell. I don't miss Carlos Mencia. So glad I don't have TV anymore.
Back 2 the lady.
I think she died for her car.
Would you die for your bicycle?
She thought... Sure I can run away and save my wrinkly ass. But who is going to save my car? If I call 911 they can push a button or yell through a REALLY BIG megaphone or shoot a laser and make the train stop. Especially if I'm inside. They'll make the train stop. Anyway life without a car has no meaning. My car is so young to die... BANG!!!!
marino12.18.08 - 10:58 am
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@MARINO.
""She thought... Sure I can run away and save my wrinkly ass.""
IF DID NOT LAUGH, THEN YOU CAN AND SHOULD NOW THAT MARINO CALLED IT RIGHT ON, LOL
C-MON NOW GUYZ, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO LAUGH NOW!
LOL
BY THE WAY: FROM ONE wrinkly ass TO ANOTHER.
eddieboyinla12.18.08 - 11:53 am
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