Option 1. It's not paticularly smart for anyone to be walking the tracks, but for a deaf woman, it's just plain stupid. From what the article says, though, she wasn't directly on the tracks, but instead was a foot or so away, so perhaps she thought she'd be fine if she didn't perceive a train coming?
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