Bintang Binaraga AS Tewas Ditabrak Kereta Api Saat Syuting Film
US Bodybuilding Model was Struck by Metrolink Train and Pronounced Dead at Scene
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
MODEL BINARAGA yang tewas ditabrak oleh kereta api saat syuting video iklan olahraga iklan di LA diduga berupaya menyelamatkan diri ketika ditabrak kereta api.
Greg Plitt, wajahnya lebih dikenal di industri kebugaran, tengah syuting video untuk situs internet pribadinya bersama dua kru film ketika kereta api komuter Metrolink menabraknya pada Sabtu sore di Burbank, kata pihak berwenang maupun rekan-rekannya.
Pada Senin, sumber penegak hukum mengatakan kepada TMZ bahwa Plitt berusaha menyelamatkan diri ketika kecelakaan itu terjadi, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Pacarnya, Christina Stejskal kepada LA Times mengatakan ia 'hanya mencoba untuk mendapatkan rekaman terbaik. "
"Dia ingin melampaui batas kemampuannya," kata Stejskal seraya menangis dalam sebuah wawancara Senin.
"Dia seperti Superman."
Pada Senin pejabat Metrolink mengatakan kepada LA Times bahwa Plitt dan kru film tidak memiliki izin untuk berada di jalur kereta api komuter.
"Dia tidak punya izin berada di sana," kata Jeff Lustgarten, juru bicara Metrolink.
"Kami mengeluarkan syarat ketat untuk publik yang ingin berada dekat lintasan kereta api, terutama untuk kru film."
Warren Coulter, yang sudah berteman selama 15 tahun dengan George Gregory Plitt Jr, 37 mengenang kepergian rekannya: "Peristiwa yang memilukan ketika terjadi di luar kendali."
Coulter mengatakan kepada The Associated Press bahwa Plitt adalah lulusan West Point dan Army Ranger yang telah melompat keluar dari pesawat lebih dari 1.000 kali dalam hidupnya dan gemar pada hal ekstrim, tetapi tetap bersikap peduli dan hormat pada banyak hal sesuai pengalamannya sebagai mantan prajurit militer.
"Semuanya mampu Greg lakukan, dia orang baik," kata Coulter. "Dia bukan sosok yang suka tidur siang."
Coulter mendapat keterangan dari kru film bahwa Plitt salah menilai situasi dan tersandung lalu jatuh sebelum dia ditabrak kereta.
"Tidak ada pertanyaan tentang hal itu, itu hanya kesalahan," kata Coulter.
Penyidik mengesampingkan adanya upaya bunuh diri, dan mencoba untuk menentukan siapa yang layak dipersalahkan dari kegiatan pembuatan film tanpa izin di di area terlarang dari lintasan kereta, Sabtu sore.
Mereka telah menanyai para saksi yang melihat Plitt berdiri di rel kereta ketika kereta menabraknya, kata sersan polisi Scott Meadows dari kepolisian Burbank.
Plitt, yang berasal dari Baltimore yang menetap di Los Angeles lebih dari 10 tahun lalu, muncul di lebih dari 200 sampul majalah, program tivi realitas 'Work Out' dan 'Friends Lovers' dan sinetron NBC berjudul 'Days of Our Lives', menurut situs pribadinya.
Sebuah video motivasi di website menunjukkan Plitt tengah beraksi di rel kereta api ketika Metrolink melintas.
THE BODYBUILDING model who was killed by a train while filming a sports advert video in LA was allegedly trying to outrun it when he was struck.
Greg Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when the Metrolink commuter train hit him Saturday afternoon in Burbank, authorities and friends said.
On Monday law enforcement sources told TMZ that Plitt was attempting to outrun an oncoming train when the accident happened.
His girlfriend Christina Stejskal told the LA Times he was 'just trying to get the best shot.'
'He wanted to push things to the limit,' said a weeping Stejskal in an interview Monday.
'He's just like Superman.'
On Monday Metrolink officials told the LA Times that Plitt and his film crew did not have permission to be on the commuter railroad's right-of-way.
'He had no permit to be there,' said Jeff Lustgarten, a Metrolink spokesman.
'We have a whole process for people to go through if they want to be on our right-of-way, especially for film crews.'
Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by 'Greg' said: 'It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control.'
Coulter told The Associated Press that Plitt was a West Point graduate and Army Ranger who had jumped out of planes more than 1,000 times in his life and had a taste for the extreme, but also treated everyone and everything with respect and care as befitted his military past.
'Everything Greg did, he did extremely well,' Coulter said. 'This isn't anyone who ever took a nap.'
Coulter said he spoke to members of the film crew and says Plitt misjudged the situation and tripped and fell before he was hit by the train.
'No question of it, it was just a mistake,' Coulter said.
Investigators have ruled out a suicide, and were trying to determine who directed the men to film without a permit in a restricted area of the tracks Saturday afternoon.
They have interviewed witnesses who saw Plitt standing on the track even as the train's horn was blaring, Burbank police Sgt. Scott Meadows said.
Plitt, a native of Baltimore who settled in Los Angeles more than 10 years ago, appeared on more than 200 magazine covers, Bravo's reality television shows 'Work Out' and 'Friends to Lovers' and NBC's daytime soap opera 'Days of Our Lives,' according to his personal website.
A motivational video on the website shows Plitt working out on the tracks as a Metrolink train passes by.
