High school track star, 17, struck and killed by freight train on trestle above popular swim spot

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3077043/High-school-track-star-17-struck-killed-freight-train-trestle-popular-swim-spot.html

A 17-year-old girl has been struck and killed by a freight train on a trestle above a popular swimming spot during a day out with friends.

Kristi Bartz was on a bridge above the Stillaguamish River in Silvana, Washington around 3.15pm on Saturday when the BNSF Railway train began approaching.

One friend, a male teen, had already jumped into the river below but Kristi and a girlfriend began running when they saw the train, which sounded its whistle and applied the emergency brake.

'We heard the train coming so we were all yelling at them 'there's a train' and they started running,' teen witness Karlie Jensen told KING5. 'We could just hear the footsteps running.'

Scene: An image shows the bridge (behind) where Kristi was fatally struck in Silvana on Saturday

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they are unable to jump straight from the tracks due to barriers,

 

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This happens far too often out here.  The last one before this was a suicide; he laid down on the tracks right in front of an oncoming commuter train.  The rest are inattention or lack of respect for how fast trains can go.  Sad.