POINT MUGU : Navy Man Hit by Train Identified
Coroner’s officials on Monday identified the serviceman who was struck and killed by a freight train while resting on the tracks as 25-year-old Jeffrey Jardine.
Jardine, of Georgia, had been stationed at the Naval Air Weapons Division at Point Mugu since September, 1991, said Ens. Kathleen Carr. He worked as an administrative yeoman and was considered “an outstanding individual,” Carr said.
He was killed Saturday at 10:20 p.m. when a train moving about 40 m.p.h. struck him as he rested on train tracks near Bates Road and the Ventura Freeway, officials said. His companion, Colin Knobloch, was able to jump to safety before the train struck. Knobloch, also stationed at Point Mugu, was Jardine’s best friend, Carr said.
The off-duty pair were walking to Santa Barbara to attend its weekend-long Old Spanish Days celebration, Carr said. She could not explain why the friends were attempting to walk the more than 25 miles to Santa Barbara.
Results of toxicology tests, which will show if Jardine was intoxicated, won’t be available for at least two weeks, coroner’s officials said.
Jardine enlisted in the Navy in April, 1991, and was due to leave Point Mugu in October, 1993, Carr said.
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