"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.
According to a Mori survey in 1998, 35 per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds admit to trespassing on railway property at least once. And since 1996 more than 50 under-16s have been accidentally killed on the railways.
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