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Here is a link with video: <A href="http://www.wftv.com/news/22622837/detail.html">http://www.wftv.com/news/22622837/detail.html</A> It looks like the trestle is about 20 feet above the water.  If they jumped, there would have been a high probability of survival, providing that they could swim.  But walking 20 feet above the water, in the dark, they probably began the crossing with the resolve to not fall off the trestle.  It would thus be difficult to reverse that mindset despite the approach of a train.  Nobody would want to be proactive and go into the water if it turned out to have not been necessary.  So the tendency would be to just keep moving, hoping they could escape in time.  Perhaps a better alternative would be to lay down in the clear at the very edge, but they probably did not know about the clearance area.  And the possibility of escaping in time would likely seem preferable to laying down at the edge, hoping that the train would clear.
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