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Train Strikes Texting Teen
A teenager was seriously injured when a train struck him as he texted on his cell phone as he walked across the tracks.
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(August 21, 2007)--A teenager who was text messaging on his cell phone while walking across railroad tracks was struck by a train and seriously injured.
Witnesses in a Cincinnati suburb say Zachariah Smith waited for one train to pass, then walked around a gate, apparently unaware another train was coming from the opposite direction.
He was thrown about 50 feet and knocked out by the collision.
The 18 year-old is reported in serious condition at a Cincinnati hospital.
The mayor of Elmwood Place, Ohio, says Smith "apparently was just daydreaming." The mayor talked to several witnesses at the scene.
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