Finding the right train track 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
I was 2 housr late to work yesterday because someone got hit by a train. It wasn't until I read the story in the paper today I realized it was a Darwin candidate.
Here is what the Star-ledger article says:
(by Joe Maliconico)
In yesterday's early-morning rain, Maria Serrano was taking a shortcut, walking along a stretch of elevated railroad tracks to catch a train from her home in Orange to her house-cleaning job in Maplewood. Suddenly, officials said, the 60-year-old woman noticed a Manhattan-bound express train approaching her from behind at about 60 mph. On one side of her was a fence. On the other side was a viaduct and a steep drop.
So she tried to outrun the commuter train, desperately racing toward the end of the fence in an effort to get around the barrier and out of harm's way.
But Serrano apparently was confused about which track the train was using, officials said. She made it around the end of the fence, only to step into the path of the train, which turned out to be coming on the adjacent track, officials said.
The article goes on about other train accidents, but I thought only that part was necessary for
this. Submitted on 05/10/2002
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
The Star-Ledger 5/10/2002
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