Woman with earphones may not have heard train
From Star News Services
Published: Monday, March 02, 2009
An Alberta woman killed Sunday when she was 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.
Police are investigating the possibility that she was wearing headphones at the time and did not hear 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.
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."