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Footage showing how man died on train tracks gone
Associated Press
Issue date: 7/23/08 Section: News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ A Nashville woman trying to find out how her husband was struck and killed by a train got more bad news when the railroad company told her most of the surveillance footage was deleted.
Sandra RedBear, now a single mother of eight children, says a company like CSX that routinely deals with fatalities on its tracks should preserve the footage.
She said the footage could have showed what happened to her husband, 35-year-old Marcus RedBear. He was found dead on the tracks on May 31.
Officials say he was struck by a train sometime between midnight and 9 a.m. Eight trains came by during that time period, and five of them used the southbound tracks where the body was found.
The company was able to retrieve tape from one of the trains - the last one to pass over him - but it was not the one that killed him.
CSX says surveillance footage is automatically taped over 96 hours after it's initially shot.
Sandra RedBear, now a single mother of eight children, says a company like CSX that routinely deals with fatalities on its tracks should preserve the footage.
She said the footage could have showed what happened to her husband, 35-year-old Marcus RedBear. He was found dead on the tracks on May 31.
Officials say he was struck by a train sometime between midnight and 9 a.m. Eight trains came by during that time period, and five of them used the southbound tracks where the body was found.
The company was able to retrieve tape from one of the trains - the last one to pass over him - but it was not the one that killed him.
CSX says surveillance footage is automatically taped over 96 hours after it's initially shot.
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