Text Messaging Kills
A deaf girl who thought she would be able to feel the vibrations of an approaching train, was struck while she was text messaging on her cell phone.
From the AP here:
Austin police now say the reigning Miss Deaf Texas was killed by a freight train apparently while text-messaging family and friends on her cell phone.
Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was killed Monday while walking along the Union Pacific tracks in South Austin. Police said she apparently was walking from her family’s home to her mother’s workplace when she was hit.
McAvoy was to represent Texas at the Miss Deaf America pageant this summer in Palm Desert, Calif.
Police said the train’s crew spotted her and sounded the locomotive’s horn, but got no response. The lead locomotive’s snowplow — which extends 16 inches from either track — clipped McAvoy, killing her.
She needed someone to get her attention and do this, which is the ASL for Train!!!
