 Girl, 14, struck and killed by train in Martinez 
 
 Family members, friends and school officials are mourning the loss of a 14-year-old girl who was struck and killed by a train in Martinez when, according to her mother, she tried to retrieve a cell phone she had dropped on the tracks. The girl was an eighth-grader at Martinez Junior High School, where classmates wore pink, her favorite color, in her memory on Monday. Rami Muth, Martinez Unified School District superintendent, said that Jenna was a "beautiful, vibrant young lady" and that counselors were on hand Monday to help students. "For me, myself, I feel like you should just be nowhere near the tracks." Jenna Betti was hit by an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway freight train east of Old Orchard Road near Howe Road about 5 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. BNSF Railway spokeswoman Lena Kent said the train was made up of five locomotives with no freight cars. "Both individuals got off of the track," she said, "and for some unknown reason, one of the individuals came back on the track." The two jumped out of the way, but "she dropped her phone and went back to retrieve it," Dena Betti wrote. "Why they made such a horrible decision we'll never know," she wrote. "The thing I can tell you about Jenna is that I always saw her in front of the house playing in the street with her sisters or with other kids," said Amanda Malmborg, who lives across the street from the family. "In class, she was a good student, but she also had a smile and was kind of the life of the party, in a very positive way, and she was also a phenomenal athlete." When classes began Monday, flags at the school were at half-staff and grief counselors were brought in to help students. If you would see her at the lunch table, sitting with her friends, she's laughing and smiling," said Principal Jonathan Eagan. Her brother, Stephen Bielecki, 20, said, "I can't really put myself in her shoes, but I think she wasn't really thinking, and didn't really think twice, and she just reacted and tried to get her phone as quick as she could." Thank you for all your love, support and prayers during this very difficult time." Jenna was an emerging soccer star and one of the top players on her traveling club team, Eagan said. It was a description seconded by others.
– Yet another person has died after putting her phone's safety ahead of her own. Jenna Betti, 14, was killed by a freight train on Sunday when she tried to retrieve a phone she had dropped on the tracks in Martinez, Calif., reports the San Francisco Chronicle. She had been sitting on the tracks with her boyfriend when the train approached. A rep for the railway says the conductor sounded a whistle as the train rounded a corner, and the crew did see the pair exit the tracks, reports the Contra Costa Times. Then "one of the individuals came back on the track." "She didn't judge the approach, and the train creates a vacuum, we were told, and it sucks you in," the eighth-grader's mother says. "We are beyond devastated." Adds her brother, "I can't really put myself in her shoes, but I think she wasn't really thinking, and didn't really think twice, and she just reacted and tried to get her phone as quick as she could." Family members and friends have left flowers at a growing memorial beside the tracks, reports ABC 7. Earlier this year, two men died after trying to retrieve a phone dropped in the Chicago River, and last week, a Texas man died after going back into a burning house for his phone.