Fitness Model Greg Plitt Tried Outrunning Train

20 Jan, 2015

A fitness model and actor who was killed when he was hit by a train was running on the tracks ahead of the train while filming a promotional video for his website, police said Tuesday.

Detectives have reviewed video from a camera atop the Metrolink commuter train that shows 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr. running between the rails Saturday, Burbank police Officer Joshua Kendrick said.

“The conductor can see somebody on the tracks a distance away,” Kendrick said. The conductor’s “braking, he’s using his horn, and for one reason or another, unfortunately, Mr. Plitt did not get off the tracks.”

Eventually the train struck Plitt, and he’s no longer in view of the camera, Kendrick said.

He said detectives were working on getting another video filmed by friends of Plitt from a different angle.

Friends initially said Plitt had misjudged the situation and tripped and fell before he was hit by the train.

Plitt, among the more recognizable faces and physiques in the fitness industry, was shooting a video for his website with two crew members when he was hit by the train.

Coulter said 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.

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.

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