He was shooting a commercial for a new sports drink

Jan 21, 2015 12:07 GMT  ·  By
Fitness model and personal trainer Greg Plitt, 37, was hit and killed by a train
   Fitness model and personal trainer Greg Plitt, 37, was hit and killed by a train

More details into the death of Bravo reality star, fitness model and personal trainer Greg Plitt have emerged online. He was killed last Sunday, after he was hit by a Metrolink train near the Station on Front Street, Burbank.

Initial reports said that Plitt was working out and shooting footage for a new project on the tracks and that, though he’d heard the horn of the train, because of the place he was at, he thought the train was coming on a parallel set of tracks.

He knew the train was coming his way, it has emerged.

Plitt tried to outrun the train

Burbank Police have obtained and viewed the footage shot on the camera received from the scene of the accident, and they tell TMZ that Plitt was working on a commercial for a new sports drink, of which he’d claimed that it made you feel like Superman.

They also recovered several empty containers of the drink, which would indicate that he had drunk them before shooting and was most likely strung out on caffeine.

He tried to outrun the train to prove just how well the sports drink worked.

“[The] video of the accident shows Plitt standing on the tracks as the train barrels toward him. Shortly before the train reaches Plitt he assumes a runners stance and bolts down the track,” TMZ writes.

The race happens at “breakneck speed” but it quickly becomes clear that Plitt is losing it, because the distance between him and the train becomes smaller. Eventually, the train “clips him” and he’s thrown off the track – and disappears from the frame.

Plitt died on the spot, from multiple blunt force trauma.

Pal was there with him

The theory that Plitt was trying to outrun the train is also being confirmed by the other man who was there, a friend of the trainer’s, who was probably there just to help with the shoot.

He told the investigators that the purpose of the commercial was to show that the new energy drink was so good it could make you outrun a speeding train.

As you can see in the video below, this isn’t the first time that Plitt shot footage for one of his workouts or products he endorsed by the tracks. Whatever it was that got him thinking outrunning a train wasn’t dangerous finally led to his untimely death.