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Former Bills 7th round pick Kyle Calloway died after being hit by a train.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000673064/article/former-bills-iowa-ol-kyle-calloway-killed-by-train?campaign=tw-cf-sf30331546-sf30331546

 

"Former Iowa Hawkeyes offensive lineman Kyle Calloway, a 2010 seventh-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills, was killed by a train on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona. He was 29 years old.

 

A Tucson Police Department release stated that Calloway was jogging westbound on and off railroad tracks when he was struck from behind by a train. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

"That was what he did for exercise," Ed Calloway, Kyle's father, told The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "He liked to run and it had rained the day before and the area where he ran was muddy, and so he was going back and forth across the tracks to get out of the mud."

 

Calloway was a three-year starter for the Hawkeyes and was twice selected second-team All-Big Ten. He was released by the Bills during the preseason of his rookie year. He signed with the Ravens the following year and appeared in two preseason games for Baltimore before being released.

 

The family is donating Calloway's brain to study the potential effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), per The Gazette."

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Why do people continue to cross the tracks and run along the tracks like this? RIP Calloway but this is the dumbest sht i've ever heard. Just common sense.

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I'm sure headphones had something to do with this. Still, there's not much else louder than an oncoming train. Horrible way to die.

He probably was wearing headphones but oncoming trains are actually shockingly quiet. Unless he was near a crossing where they would be blowing the horn, a train can be almost on top of you before you know it. Amtrak traveling at high speed is even more quiet & fast approaching.

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This is extremely sad news, but I can't help but question running on and off of train tracks, especially if wearing headphones. Like running in the bike lane to me.

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I know it's an irrational reason, but I never run outside with headphones anymore after that guy had a plane land on him while running at the beach.

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Now I dont know much about CTE but couldnt getting hit by a train mess with the results? That is the ultimate physical punishment

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I'm sure headphones had something to do with this. Still, there's not much else louder than an oncoming train. Horrible way to die.

Trains coasting or going down grade you won't hear until they are on top of you

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Horrible news. I don't understand how it could happen (even with headphones), but prayers to the family.

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I'm sure headphones had something to do with this. Still, there's not much else louder than an oncoming train. Horrible way to die.

 

Seems like it's not that horrible to me. If you never see it coming, and die instantly.

 

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I was sad to hear how he was killed but I guess it's not any dumber than some of these people that run on a busy road during rush hour or bike in the middle of traffic. I see it all the time. It's an accident waiting to happen

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I was sad to hear how he was killed but I guess it's not any dumber than some of these people that run on a busy road during rush hour or bike in the middle of traffic. I see it all the time. It's an accident waiting to happen

Whatever your opinion is on bicycles, riding on the road is, in most places legal and even proper protocol in many cases. Running on an active railroad track is almost always at the very least, and universally discouraged. The two aren't comparable.
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