Miss Deaf Texas gets a slap of a train

[A face]

Miss Deaf Texas gets a slap of a train


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.

Here she is !!

[Peadar]

You'd think she could feel the vibrations of the train.

[strangeirish]

Sorry lads......

[dahamsta]

Read that in popbitch earlier, awful story. It was all I could do to keep a straight face.

[Thunderblaster]

They say that the good looking chicks die young but the real ugly crows live a long life!!

[ccfcman]

She doesn't look deaf, ok I know, I'll grab my coat :/