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Subject: Train kills P.G. bicyclist listening to headphones
Message-ID: <3653@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 18:01:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 18:01:07 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Nov-83 01:06:44 EST
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[From Mo 7 Nov 1983 Montgomery Journal]
 A bicyclist listening to music on stereo headphones as he crossed a
railroad track didn't hear a train before it crushed him to death,
according to police.
 Prince George's County [Maryland] police said Douglas Herzog, 18, of
7823 Mandan Road in Greenbelt, was killed at 8 a.m. Friday.  They said
it took hours to identify him because of his severe injuries.
 Seconds before his death, Herzog was stopped on a black 10-speed bike
behind a truck, which was waiting at a crossing gate for a southbound
train to pass.
 "When the train passed, the truck ran around the barricade before it
raised (and) the bicyclist followed," police said.  But a northbound
train en route to Baltimore had reached the crossing and the cyclist
slammed into it.  He was killed instantly, police said.