Mother of 8 Hit and Killed by Train During Morning Run: ‘She Was an Angel’
Police say both trains sounded horns before the collision, and the train that struck Thelma Candelaria applied its emergency brake.
- On Thursday morning in Eloy, Arizona, Thelma Candelaria, 47, was struck and killed by a train while recording a jog on Snapchat near Sunshine Boulevard and Frontier Street.
- Candelaria stopped at a railroad crossing around 6 a.m. to film one train when a second train approached from the opposite direction; her noise-canceling Beat headphones muffled the sound.
- Daughter Alaisha Candelaria stated her mother was 'laughing' and 'in her own world' while jogging; the train crew applied emergency brakes but could not avoid the collision.
- Following the tragedy, 21-year-old daughter Shaunia is stepping into the role of head of household while the family established a GoFundMe to support Candelaria's seven children.
- Investigators with the Eloy Police Department's Vehicular Crimes Unit continue examining the incident, which occurred just days after Candelaria was baptized in what she viewed as a new beginning.
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Final Snapchats of mum-of-seven before being hit and killed by train
Thelma Candelaria died on Thursday morning in Eloy, near Tucson. The 47-year-old had stopped to film a passing train and posted to social media. She was then struck by a second one from behind.
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Thelma Candelaria was wearing noise cancelling headphones out running in Eloy, Arizona when she was struck from behind
A mother of seven children lost her life after being overwhelmed by a train while performing her usual morning ride near Eloy, Arizona. Thelma Candelaria, 47 years old, was presumably recording a video with her smartphone while wearing noise-cancelling headphones, unaware of the imminent danger. It is what emerges [...] The article Mother of 7 children is overwhelmed and killed by a train while jogging and recording a video, wearing headphones w…
47-year-old Thelma Candelaria ran along the railway tracks in Eloy when she was hit by a train approaching in the opposite direction
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