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MISSION VIEJO - Two people were killed and another was injured when they were struck by a Metrolink train early Thursday morning after apparently falling asleep near tracks after a night out in Santa Ana and Laguna Beach.

The fatal accident took place about 6 a.m., when a Metrolink train headed to Los Angeles struck and killed a man and a teen girl.

Another woman told police that she had heard the sound of the oncoming train and had managed to jump away from the tracks, surviving with injuries to her arms and legs.

Investigators are piecing together what led to the accident on the tracks near Alicia Parkway and Via Fabricante, an area that nearby residents say is known for partying and drinking.

The survivor, a 27-year-old woman from Santa Ana, told investigators that she had gotten to know the girl, whom the Orange County coroner's office identified as Anastasia Bolton, 17, from Del Mar, through Facebook. She ended up meeting her and Daniel Akins, 22, from Mission Viejo in person for the first time hours before the accident, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.

The woman, Bolton and Akins met at Proof, a bar in Santa Ana, before driving south to walk along the shore in Laguna Beach and finally heading to Mission Viejo, where they planned to meet a friend they could stay with until morning, Amormino said.

When they were unable to reach their friend, the three ended up parked at the Gateway shopping center at Via Fabricante and Alicia Parkway.

The survivor told investigators that at some point Bolton got out of the car and headed down toward the train tracks, and the other two followed her, Amormino said.

The survivor reported falling asleep next to the tracks and told investigators that she assumed the other two had fallen asleep as well, Amormino said.

The train engineer noticed something on the tracks and was able to sound a horn before the impact, Metrolink spokeswoman Angela Starr said.

Shoes and articles of clothing littered the area underneath the Alicia Parkway overpass, and the two bodies were covered with yellow tarps as investigators canvassed a 700-foot area around the tracks.

Investigators also went through the contents of a black Mitsubishi Eclipse parked in the nearby shopping center.

The survivor reportedly suffered moderate injuries to her arms and legs and was taken to a hospital.

The survivor told authorities that they had not been drinking in the hours leading up to the accident. Amormino said that there was no evidence of any drinking at the railroad tracks and that firefighters responding to the incident hadn't detected any odor of alcohol on the survivor.

“We believe that they did not drink at their meeting spot at Proof's,” Amormino said. “We have no way of knowing whether they were drinking anywhere else.”

Keith Ball, whose home is near the tracks, said he heard his dog barking about 3 a.m. Thursday. When he went into his yard to investigate, he reported that he heard screams and laughter in the area.

“It happens all the time,” Ball said. “The kids are always drinking and partying down there.”

Other residents said it was common for school-age children to cross the tracks in the area as a shortcut to several schools.

“This is a big problem,” said Diane Zammit, who lives near the area where the accident took place. “This is an incident waiting to happen.”

Sheriff's officials said they don't receive many calls of trespassing near the tracks but acknowledged that many incidents may go unreported.

“This could happen all the time and people don't call it in,” said Lt. Mike Gavin, Mission Viejo's chief of police services. “We just don't get a lot of calls of service of people trespassing in the tracks.”

Contact the writer: shernandez@ocregister.com or 949-454-7361

Submitted on 09/10/2010

Submitted by: Lou Armenteros
Reference: http://www.ocregister.com/Published: Sept. 9, 2010

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks, Lou, but train/pedestrian collisions are simply way too common. There are thousands of them every year in the US alone and we hear about lots of them. We've heard of people sleeping on tracks like in this case, walking on tracks, riding bikes, ATV's, etc. on tracks, jogging on tracks, having sex on tracks, passed out drunk on tracks, etc. and all getting hit by oncoming trains.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said.


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