2 March 2009
Woman With Earphones May Not Have Heard Train
Canmore Alberta - An Alberta woman killed Sunday after
being struck by a train may have been wearing headphones, relatives say.
According to Canmore RCMP Meagan Baillie, 21, was walking south on the tracks, behind a local gas station, when she was struck from
behind. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Canmore RCMP Cpl. Martine Renaud said the train's whistle blew several times as it approached the young woman.
"She was walking on the railroad track and she was hit from behind," Renaud said. "We believe she had the earphones on
and didn't hear it coming."
Renaud said pedestrians shouldn't walk on the tracks or listen to music while near the train.
Family members were in shock Sunday.
"She was wonderful person," said Baillie's grandfather, Glen Baillie.
The young woman had lived with her grandparents since she was 15.
"We had her all through her teenage years. Never had an ounce of problem. Never an ounce," her grandfather said.
Baillie was on her way to her longtime job at Safeway on Sunday, he said. As she did every day, Baillie took the shortcut along a path
near the railroad tracks, he said.
The young woman was wearing her iPod, Glen Baillie added.
"She walked off the deck putting her iPod on, and that was it."
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