{"id":302380,"date":"2017-03-16T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=302380"},"modified":"2017-03-16T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:04:26","slug":"pregnant-girl-19-killed-by-train-while-modelling-on-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/pregnant-girl-19-killed-by-train-while-modelling-on-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant girl, 19, killed by train while modelling on railway"},"content":{"rendered":"
A pregnant aspiring model was killed by a freight train after she became stuck between two railroad tracks while posing for a photo shoot.<\/p>\n
Fredzania Thompson, 19, died on Friday afternoon after being struck near the intersection of Hollister and Lee Street in downtown Navasota, police said.<\/p>\n
The teen had been standing between two sets of tracks when a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) train approached and she moved out of the way onto another track.<\/p>\n
Thompson was not aware there was a Union Pacific train approaching in the opposite direction and ended up stuck.\u00a0The photographer was not hurt in the accident.<\/p>\n
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Union Pacific spokesman Jeff De Graff, told the Navasota Examiner\u00a0that the train crew had alerted them with the horn as they approached them and began the emergency stop process.<\/p>\n
‘Basically, you have two railroad tracks there, one is Burlington Northern to the west and one is Union Pacific to the east, and she was in between the two tracks,’ Navasota Assistant City Manager Shawn Myatt said.<\/p>\n
‘Burlington Northern had a train on their track coming and she turned back to the east to walk across the Union Pacific track and walked right in front of the Union Pacific train that was heading south.’<\/p>\n
The incident occurred before 1pm and she was pronounced dead at a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Authorities stopped traffic in Navasota for five hours following the accident as they conducted an investigation.<\/p>\n
The Union Pacific train had been traveling from Oklahoma to Beaumont and had 101 cars carrying grain. The speed of the train on impact is unknown, but officials said a train traveling 50mph would need over a mile to come to a full stop, the Examiner reported.<\/p>\n