Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

[atxrocker]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/14/beauty.queen.death.ap/index.html

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed




Tuesday, March 14, 2006; Posted: 9:27 a.m. EST (14:27 GMT)

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Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was walking Monday near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train, authorities said.
A witness told Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.
McAvoy, who had been deaf since birth, won the state title in June and represented the state "with dignity and pride," state pageant director Laura Loeb-Hill told The Associated Press via e-mail Monday night.
McAvoy was to represent Texas at the Miss Deaf America pageant this summer, Loeb-Hill said.
McAvoy graduated last year from the Texas School for the Deaf, attended Austin Community College and then started at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in January, but had returned to Texas, Loeb-Hill said.

This is just... sad

 

[loopymitch]

I was going to make some smart comment but it's sad so I won't.

 

[RoyalDiva]

Don't worry loopymitch, I was thinking the same thing. But it is very tragic. A lot of risks when you can't hear or see, aren't there. I do wonder why she was taking such a risk, but we probably don't know the whole story yet.

 

[thesanityannex]

This isn't meant to be funny or rude, but...............having lived next to a train track in Chico for years, I would have thought she would have felt the train coming. The train by my house would shake my place about a halfmile before it came.

 

[Gary]

Yah, I was thinking the same thing. When the thing is blowing its horn and I am in my car I can feel it, as well as the vibration from the train.

Also, wth was she doing on a train track if she was deaf?

 

[atxrocker]

This isn't meant to be funny or rude, but...............having lived next to a train track in Chico for years, I would have thought she would have felt the train coming. The train by my house would shake my place about a halfmile before it came.

yeah, I agree.. this is a weird story. you would think the vibration of the train would alert her. the upcoming news says she was hit even though she was not on the track.. interesting.

 

[ILV]

I wonder if this was a suicide?

 

[HndsmCelt]

There are train tracks that run behind Fresno City College where I teach part time, and over the years a couple of compleetly able bodied students have been killed crossing the tracks, I know it seems odd, but aparently these things do happen.

 

[atxrocker]

interesting update..

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/15/miss.deaf.texas/index.html