Jogging Near Tracks

I read about the jogger who escaped serious injury in brush with a train. I watch joggers as they do their stuff--men, women, either jogging singularly or in bunches, puffing, sweating, struggling and often barely jogging. I mostly see them in residential areas. But a jogger who takes to train tracks is beyond my comprehension.

A train track is one place to stay away from. Either jogging or walking on it is plain dangerous; people have been told so and advised against it.

What was not mentioned in the report was did the train’s whistle-blower even try to apply the brakes when he observed this jogger on the tracks? Evidently not because the jogger said that he almost became sucked into the passing train. It seems that train wasn’t about to stop, like making it one jogger less, had he been hit.

PAUL SIMONE

Anaheim