{"id":59572,"date":"2025-05-17T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59572"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:43:03","slug":"a-tragic-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59572","title":{"rendered":"A tragic selfie."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-318.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-318.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-318-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, three teenage girls \u2014 Essa Ricker, Kelsea Webster, and Savannah Webster \u2014 were tragically killed by a train in Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah, while taking a selfie on the tracks. Kelsea and Savannah were sisters. Unaware of an oncoming locomotive, they were struck despite the engineer sounding the horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>about:blank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineer John Anderson and colleague Michael Anderson watched helplessly as the train hit the girls. Essa and Kelsea died at the scene; Savannah, 13, was critically injured and died three days later in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls\u2019 families and the train crew were devastated. Savannah\u2019s mother later urged others to take rail safety seriously, calling the incident preventable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59499\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, three teenage girls \u2014 Essa Ricker, Kelsea Webster, and Savannah Webster \u2014 were tragically killed by a train in Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah, while taking&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59574,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59572\/revisions\/59574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}