From KTLA.com: A Ventura surfing instructor whose arm was severed in a collision with an Amtrak train earlier this month is recovering after a grueling surgery to reattach the limb.
The horrific July 7 incident unfolded just before 5:30 p.m. as 24-year-old Ventura native Elieah Boyd pushed her 80-pound electric bike across the train tracks near Seaward Avenue.
“There was no train horn. It was like three seconds from when I saw the train to when it happened,” she told KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell. “I just happened to have my hand still on the bike as the train goes by. The train barely clipped the bike, just enough to take my arm completely off.”
Just two weeks out from the traumatic injury, her arm now in a wrist-to-shoulder sling, the smiling 24-year-old said she remembers looking down and not seeing her arm, thinking to herself that there was no way what had just happened was real.
A retired firefighter who had been walking with Boyd reportedly told first responders to look for her arm, and police found it near the crash site.
She was airlifted to the hospital where she underwent surgery to re-attach her arm, and reportedly already has some feeling back in the arm.
Boyd is still hospitalized and faces at least two more surgeries, the report explained.
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