US musician hit by a train while using mobile phone, but survives

Jeff Clark, a successful retailer who was hit by a train almost two years ago, working out at the gym as part of his rehabilitation.

Jeff Clark doesn’t remember getting hit by the train, which is just as well. There are so many other reminders.

He was in Little Italy that night, two summers ago, singing in a bar with a cover band called Backstage Pass. He wandered away between sets and wound up standing on the tracks at the Hawthorn Street crossing in San Diego, California, the United States. Witnesses said he was talking on his cellphone, unaware of what was headed his way. A 490-tonne Amtrak Surfliner.