(KTLA) – A California 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 Nexstar’s KTLA. “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.”
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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…