I was under the impression that deaf people were more sensitive to vibration. I used to live by the tracks and my whole house would shake when the train rolled by.
Even so, I don't feel comfortable walking down tracks. Even the old tracks -that haven't been used in years and are overgrown make me feel a little uncomfortable. Then again; for some reason I am completely paranoid when it comes to walking near large moving vehicles.
I used to have a book about the darwin awards. Some of it was funny in a freudenshade kinda way... but some of it was strictly bad taste -like kids dying because they didn't know any better. In this case, if the deaf girl was recently deaf... if she wasn't sensitive to vibrations or perhaps the train didn't emanate vibrations... This is a tragedy.
