LOS ANGELES – Authorities have identified the woman who fell from the platform and was killed by an Antelope Valley Line Metrolink train pulling into the Sylmar/San Fernando Station, despite a companion’s efforts to pull her to safety.
Felicia Smith, 24, was struck around 6 p.m. Monday, April 16, by Palmdale-bound Metrolink Train 285 at the Sylmar station in the 12200 block of Frank Modugno Drive, officials said.
Smith had been facing the tracks and at some point turned, slipped, and fell backward from the platform, according to Lt. Paul McLaughlin of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Mission Station.
Witnesses said Smith’s boyfriend jumped onto the tracks and tried to pull her to safety, but she may have been unconscious as the man was only able to move her a short distance before he had to jump out of the way, McLaughlin said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man’s leg was struck but he was not seriously injured. He and the woman’s mother and twin sister came to the Mission Station to try and find out the woman’s condition and if she had been taken to a hospital and were then notified that she had not survived, according to McLaughlin, describing a scene of grief when the notification was made.
The fatality halted train traffic through the station and officials arranged bus bridge service to get passengers to their destinations.
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Catlady143 says
I believe it said she was on the platform and fell, not standing next to the tracks. Though I do not often take the metro, the couple times that I did,I recall that pretty much everyone stood on the platform as you have to cross the platform to enter the train.
The family had my deepest sympathy as I can only imagine what the have had to endure from such a horrible tragedy and I hope they did not have to actually see their loved one and the damage caused to her by the train and also send deepest wishes that they are able to find comfort and strength in each other and Felicias Memory until the day when that which may bring sadness now will instead bring happy memories and the love you shared.
Other than to correct someone’s failure to read or comprehend the article, I won’t comment on how rude and downright funked up the stupid comment was and how it was just downright mean and mean people suck.
Oops, looks like I did comment on it. My bad.
WGB says
To the Smith Family may you have comfort and strength for this unfortunate tragedy Isaiah 25: 8 “He will swallow up death forever, And the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces.”
Not thinking says
sorry for the loss but you have to be pretty stupid to stand that close to a track
Fiona says
Keep your nasty comment to your self things happen you don’t know what went wrong.