Fitness trainer was shooting a video with a friend

Jan 19, 2015 10:51 GMT  ·  By
Fitness model and trainer Greg Plitt has died after being hit by a train in Burbank
   Fitness model and trainer Greg Plitt has died after being hit by a train in Burbank

Greg Plitt, or simply Greg, a famous personal trailer, fitness model and actor, was killed on Sunday in Burbank, after he was hit by a Metrolink train near the Station on Front Street, Burbank Police have confirmed.

Plitt was 37 years old and died on the spot.

Shooting a video on the train track

Plitt was a former Ranger in the US Army before he turned to fitness and entertainment as a way of living. He famously appeared on Bravo’s Work Out series (you can see a sample of that show in the video below) and Friends to Lovers, but he also appeared on NBC’s daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and had been featured on over 200 fitness magazine covers.

A motivational video posted with his bio on the Bravo website shows him working on the Metrolink train tracks, and this could offer some clue as to what he was doing on the tracks when the train came.

The Wrap has confirmed with Sgt. Scott Meadows of the Burbank Police Department that Plitt was shooting some kind of a video when the collision occurred. He was there with a friend, who was not harmed at all.

Police initially considered suicide as the cause of death, but when they recovered the camera from the scene, they ruled it had been an accident. They are now trying to find out who told him and his friend they could shoot on the train tracks, if someone had really authorized it.

“This is a terrible tragedy. Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with Greg’s family and friends at this extremely difficult time,” a Bravo spokesperson tells the same media outlet.

A “blind point”

Meanwhile, police sources reveal that Plitt had no idea the train was coming on the track he was on, even though he must have heard the horn, which was “blaring.”

He was standing in “a blind point,” where if you looked, it seemed as if the train was coming on another track, so he must have thought that he was in no danger because it would pass him by on a parallel track.

The friend he was with will probably provide more details of the accident and how it came to happen.