According to TMZ, actor and celebrity trainer Greg Plitt was racing a train for an energy drink commercial when he was struck and killed this weekend.
TMZ reports that police watched video of Plitt standing on the tracks until the train approached, at which point he assumed a sprinter's stance and took off running just ahead of the locomotive. The video shows the train catching up and clipping Plitt, who died after being thrown from the tracks.
Police reportedly found several empty energy drinks at the scene and told TMZ that Plitt had been shooting a commercial for the beverage company, which was not named in the report.
Witnesses and friends told the L.A. Times that Plitt may have been trying to mimic a superhero when he was killed. "He just made a mistake," his friend Warren Coulter said.
"He wanted to push things to the limit," his girlfriend Christina Stejskal told the paper. "He's just like Superman."
