Young Mother Killed By A Train After Dropping Phone

[Benjamin]

Relatives of a young mother killed after jumping on railway tracks to retrieve her mobile phone have said "our world has been shattered".
Charlene Pickering, 23, was hit by an express train travelling at 60mph when she climbed down from a platform after dropping the handset.
She had been travelling home with her boyfriend after watching a Chelsea football match when she was hit by the 7.15pm London Waterloo to Exeter service on Sunday night.

Family members said they had lost the light of their lives in a statement issued through British Transport Police.

Relatives said: "Our world has been shattered by the tragedy that occurred on Sunday. Charlene was the light of our lives and with her infectious smile she brightened the world of all who knew her.
"She is survived by her four-year-old son Toby, who will fortunately have the support of his loving father Owen and his many family and friends to help him through this traumatic time.

"We wish to express our sincere gratitude for all the messages of sympathy and support at this sad time and respectfully ask for privacy whilst we come to terms with the devastating reality that our darling Charlene is gone."
Chief Inspector Alison Evans said: "We believe at this stage that Charlene went on to the tracks to retrieve her mobile phone before being struck by the train. This appears to have been a tragic accident and our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this very difficult and sad time for them."

Boyfriend Daniel Pickett paid tribute to Ms Pickering, from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on Facebook. He posted a message on the social networking site saying: "If only heaven had a phone babygirl I would love to hear your voice just once more. I really am not looking forward 2 spending my life without you we had made so many plans and they have been so cruelly taken."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-killed-train-tracks-053843138.html

[Mystic Mock]

R.I.P,but I have got to say if I dropped my Mobile Phone on a Railway,I would just leave it as I wouldn't risk what happened to her.

[Marsh.]

People never learn, do they.

[MTVN]

What a crazy way to chuck your life away, reading some of the comments as well, talking about how the train driver must have felt, I never really thought about it before but it must be horrible to be in that position where you know you're about to drive a train into someone and kill them but you can't stop it

[Scarlett.]

What a crazy way to chuck your life away, reading some of the comments as well, talking about how the train driver must have felt, I never really thought about it before but it must be horrible to be in that position where you know you're about to drive a train into someone and kill them but you can't stop it

Thats why I hate people who kill themselves in such a way.

[Patrick]

'If only heaven had a phone baby girl'

LOL. Irony.

[Patrick]

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/372892_320201798019787_1563436583_n.jpg

^ this is her.

[Mystic Mock]

'If only heaven had a phone baby girl'

LOL. Irony.

Only you spot stuff like that Patrick and is sick enough to post about it.:joker:

[Benjamin]

I think more of us spotted that but had the common decency not to point it out.

[Me. I Am Salman]

this is so sad :'( RIP

[Z]

So stupid...

[MeMyselfAndI]

If she had a real expensive phone though? Me & my friend were talking about if 500 pounds was on a train track would you get it & we both said we would

[Mystic Mock]

If she had a real expensive phone though? Me & my friend were talking about if 500 pounds was on a train track would you get it & we both said we would

I prefer to have my life though,so I could actually spend the money.:joker:

[Scarlett.]

If she had a real expensive phone though? Me & my friend were talking about if 500 pounds was on a train track would you get it & we both said we would

Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Theres usually like a bell though

[hennessy]

another nominee for the darwin awards

[Mystic Mock]

Theres usually like a bell though

Fair enough,i'm a coward anyway so I wouldn't take the risk.:joker:

[Jack_]

Very sad, RIP.

But how people could be so foolish is just beyond me...anyone that would jump onto a train track for any reason whatsoever is just a complete idiot. Nothing is worth that sort of risk.

'If only heaven had a phone baby girl'

LOL. Irony.

This made me laugh out loud :laugh3:

[Ninastar]

Idiot woman

[Tom4784]

Such a waste. Nothing more frustrating then a death that could have been so easily avoided

[Marc]

What a horrible way to go :(

[Doogle]

Stupid woman.

I feel sorry for her family and most of all the driver, but sorry that was a totally moronic thing to do. I knew better than that from the first time I ever got on a train.

[Marc]

The driver must be a mess, poor guy

[lostalex]

I can't imagine anything that would cause me to jump onto the tracks, wtf was she thinking?

I wouldn't even jump onto the tracks for a million dollar bill.

I think maybe this was a suicide.

[HBB1508]

So sad but why would you do that - I lost my dog one day and she was on the railway tracks as we live next to them - thankfully she was one of the only dogs pulled off alive for that I'm ever thankful - I'm respectful of railway tracks and the trains that run on them.

[Benjamin]

I can't imagine anything that would cause me to jump onto the tracks, wtf was she thinking?

I wouldn't even jump onto the tracks for a million dollar bill.

I think maybe this was a suicide.

I just put it down to a lack of common sense in the moment.

[nicole_burks]

I wouldn't go after something that fell on the tracks.

Did she not hear the train coming?

[Benjamin]

Did she not hear the train coming?

Yeah, I wondered that too.

[lostalex]

i think it was a suicide and they are tryna cover it up for the sake of her family. That makes the most sense to me.

[Kazanne]

I think more of us spotted that but had the common decency not to point it out.

Too right

[Marsh.]

That is a valid point actually, surely she would have heard the train coming. The thing doesn't just come out of nowhere, unless she was stupid enough to think she could hop down and up before it reached her.

[lostalex]

the common decency not to point it out?? then why is there a thread about it?

If it's indecent, close the thread.

[Kazanne]

Thats why I hate people who kill themselves in such a way.

Where does it say she killed herself? i read it as it was a tragic accident

[MTVN]

Maybe she dropped the phone and seeing the train coming saw it would get smashed to bits and thought she could jump down in time :shrug:

[Marsh.]

Where does it say she killed herself? i read it as it was a tragic accident

It doesn't, he was saying that the position train drivers are put in when people commit suicide that way is awful.

[Kazanne]

It doesn't, he was saying that the position train drivers are put in when people commit suicide that way is awful.

Oh right,some posts seem to suggest it was suicide,i agree about the train drivers