It was just before Chloe's 13th birthday when she and a few friends thought it would be a fun idea to hang out near a railway footbridge.
"I decided to climb over and that's when I fell 30 feet. Luckily, I didn't hit the overhead cables but the electricity arched across and I was hit by 25,000 volts."
Chloe suffered disfiguring burns, crushed vertebrae and had to undergo three skin-graft operations. Her story is told in Get a life - don't lose it!, a publication issued by Partners Against Railway Crime to warn young people about the potentially fatal consequences of trespassing on the tracks.
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