[BrownRock]

Originally Posted by magenta ↗

So it wasn't a kid that got hit??!!

Correct.

[FireFlyGuts]

41 years old, that is the shock of the night. That looks like a little kid in a school uniform to me, but I'll but it.

[Magenta]

I thought it was a child!! She's either a pretty short woman or everything else around her is rather large!! Lol! Like the revised title!!

[grace52775]

I don't get it. Can't they hear the blaring train horn coming?

[huskie]

Thats a blast from the past!!! This was the first 'death' vid i saw..... Left me reeling for a couple of days.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by BrownRock ↗

At around 5:53 p.m. on August 26, 1991, Mary T. Wojtyla, 41, of Chicago, was walking with her lawyer across the tracks at the Fairview Avenue grade crossing in Downers Grove, directly in front of a westbound train which was stopped at the Metra station. Apparently distracted by ongoing divorce proceedings, she crossed the center track and was struck by a westbound Burlington Northern EMD E9 pulling a express train, estimated to be traveling at 60 miles per hour. Wojtyla was killed instantly; her lawyer saw the oncoming train and was not struck. The accident delayed between 12,000 and 15,000 commuters on the Burlington Northern line for more than an hour. Trains were further delayed when Downers Grove police ordered the engineer to back up the train in order to re-enact the incident. According to an account in the Downers Grove Reporter, "the engineer was so seriously affected by the re-enactment, where he had to pass by the dead body still on the tracks, he was unable to continue and had to be relieved of his duties." A railfan captured Wojtyla being struck by the train.The video, dubbed "Traingirl", has been shown with the impact edited out at many Operation Lifesaver events, and unedited on shock site web sites and YouTube. A wrongful death lawsuit brought by Wojtyla's estate was dismissed in 1996. Metra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for the story.

[Magenta]

'Cause I'll hit your ass like the train did that bitch
that got "Banned From TV"

I do believe it's from some poxy Eminem song...

[lolfece]

Lots and lots of people commenting before reading the article about the video. It was not a child.

[SoundOfTheBeast]

Fucking...ow.

[Nightbreed]

this clip is old