ANAHEIM, Calif. — A Lake Forest woman who died from injuries suffered when her car was struck by a freight train in Anaheim dialed 911 to report her predicament and was being urged by a dispatcher to get out of the car when the phone went dead, police said Tuesday. Linda Kruger-Small, 68, was in a 2005 Honda Civic that got stuck on Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks just south of Lakeview Street and Orangethorpe Avenue Monday. The car was struck by a freight train traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles. A dispatcher who was advising her to get out of the car was able to hear a man trying to help the woman — but then the line went dead, Martinez said. The bystander, who unsuccessfully tried to get the woman to get out before the train struck the car, pulled her from the vehicle after it was hit, Martinez said. The woman was taken to a hospital where she died.
What a strange story. Maybe she thought the guy was going to rob her, and she’d rather take her chances with the train.
Sounds like the Poles who were trapped on an escalator during a black out !!!
#1. LOL!
Yeah, sounds like Alzheimer’s to me.
That takes “attention whore” to a new level.
Maybe she was blond and the door was locked?
One less idiot on the planet, many more to go.
I feel like I want to joke about this, but I just keep thinking – Poor kid, what a stupid way to die. Top it off, people who didn’t even know her, are getting a laugh from her death. I sure hope I die an uninteresting death.
“I sure hope I die an uninteresting death.”
Always leave ’em laughing!
Exactly how does one get their vehicle accidentally stuck on railroad tracks? Or to put it another less polite way, without severely fucking up?
#9 Just follow your GPS and sooner or later you’ll end up on railway tracks – or worse…
#7,
Poor kid? She was 68! Unless you call everyone a kid… Anyway, I do feel sorry for her, and I wonder why the guy couldn’t get her out of the car. Maybe she wouldn’t let him?
#9,
That can happen easily if you are driving in an unfamiliar area. Like #10 said, GPS can do that to you as well.
Her girlfriends said it feels good to get the train ran on you.
Are we that lost for amusement that we need to make jokes about it ? I know it’s a little Darwinian but… C’mon ! Sheesh.
P.S. Us Aussies love you on T.W.I.T. John C… Give em hell… lol
There is a strong analogy here.
Woman stuck on train tracks refusing help from various sources.
Investors stuck with Madoff refusing to heed time honored investment criteria.
USA stuck with a corrupt corporate toadying two party Congress.
The train wreck in all three cases is unavoidable if you refuse to get out of the car.
Cruel, but all so true.
11. “That can happen easily if you are driving in an unfamiliar area.”
I think you and I have two completely different definitions for what can be accomplished “easily.” If unintentionally getting stuck on a railroad track was easy, under the definition I use (which is the same one most dictionaries use) I think it’d happen a lot more often than it currently does.
One more reason why you shouldn’t use your cell phone while driving.
#11 – Syrinx
>>That can happen easily if you are driving in
>>an unfamiliar area.
It can? How? I’ve never even HEARD of it happening, much less done it myself, and I’ve driven in a lot of unfamiliar areas.
When I was working a factory night shift in college, a bunch of rascally troublemakers got a forklift stuck on some train tracks, but they had to work at it. And it was an internal track, so they were able to drive the forklift from the loading dock area to where the tires were straddling the track.
I wouldn’t even know how to begin getting my car stuck on train tracks.
I’d say I’ve driven over my fair share of railroad crossings. How do you get ‘stuck’?
Do you have to be such a shitty driver that you drive off the crossing and onto the rails?
re: #5 – lol, better call BlondeStar.
liberal college professor no doubt…
Darwin Award recipient!
She wanted to commit suicide. However, her life insurance would only be paid out from accidental or medical related death. So, she improvised fro the sake of her relatives.
Worse than the fools who sat around while New Orleans flooded because they were waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Someone told her what to do and she didn’t.
I knew Ms. Kruger-Small, and have been friends with her youngest son since we were in junior high together. She was a sweet, compassionate, adoring woman who treated us all as if we were her children. I am completely numb as I write this. I can’t believe that she is no longer with us, and am saddened to the core by the way she died. The only thing sadder is how so many watched her struggle, but didn’t help. Only one man came forward to rescue her. God bless him, and may his suffering be minimal for having to be traumatized in this manner. Sadder still are the cowards who are so terrified of death and human interaction that they have to hurl insults under the guise of “jokes.” If this is what our society has crumbled to then it is the decedent who is truly in a better place, and we are the unfortunate ones that have to live in this rotten world.
God bless you Linda, the world is a poorer place now that you have left it. May you rest in peace.
-Mehrdad
P.S.- She had problems getting out of the car due to her rheumatoid arthritis. She spent her formative years in the medical field, and had saved countless lives. It’s a shame that only one man came to save hers.