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Officials think that Zachariah Smith was so engrossed in sending a text message Monday that he didn't notice a train - until it hit him as he crossed tracks in Elmwood Place.
Smith, 18, was on Township Avenue about 10 a.m. Monday waiting to cross the tracks. The gates were down to allow a CSX train to continue its southbound route.
When that train passed, Smith, apparently too intent on texting, was hit by a northbound Norfolk Southern train that he didn't see coming from the other direction. He was thrown about 50 feet.
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Smith was taken to University Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition.
"The horn was blowing like mad, and the kid was text-messaging," Ellison said.
"The kid apparently was just daydreaming."
Officials suspect that Smith confused the horn and noise made by the oncoming train with that of the train that had just passed him heading south.
Deer Park's Mike Billups saw the train hit Smith, knocking him through the air and, at least at first, knocking him out.
"Initially, I thought he had cleared the train until I saw (Smith) from underneath the train lying on the ground," Billups said.
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So the next time you sms, do it somewhere safe. even when i sms while walking around the campus i do bump into a lot of people. so never sms on the road. instead, the safest place to sms would be in
toilet?
no?
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