from cnn

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The reigning Miss Deaf Texas died after being struck by a train, officials said.

Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was walking Monday near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train, authorities said.

A witness told Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.

McAvoy, who had been deaf since birth, won the state title in June and represented the state "with dignity and pride," state pageant director Laura Loeb-Hill told The Associated Press via e-mail Monday night.

McAvoy was to represent Texas at the Miss Deaf America pageant this summer, Loeb-Hill said.

McAvoy graduated last year from the Texas School for the Deaf, attended Austin Community College and then started at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in January, but had returned to Texas, Loeb-Hill said.

wow! how ironic. why in the fuck would you hang out near a train track if you were deaf? thats crazy!

Wouldnt the trains vibrations tip her off?

Poor thing.

Thats really sad.Good people like her die a horrible death while human garbage like Rob Longshot and Wankus walk the earth.I am convinced there is no god.

Khan Tusion should do a Meatholes scene with a deaf girl...it would be like one of those 'if a tree falls in the wood and there's no-one there to hear it, does it make a sound?' conundrums. If the whore in question cannot hear all of the degrading talk, does she still have some self-worth left at the end of it?

Either that or he gets someone to do sign language translations for him...

This thread is deeply disturbing. I don't know you, I don't want to know any of you, but I feel as if I know her. Cue Theme