(KTLA) — A California surfing instructor whose arm was severed earlier this month in a collision with an Amtrak train is recovering after a grueling surgery to reattach the limb.

The horrific July 7 incident unfolded just before 5:30 p.m. as 24-year-old Ventura native Elieah Boyd pushed her 80-pound electric bike across the train tracks near Seaward Avenue.

“There was no train horn. It was like three seconds from when I saw the train to when it happened,” she told Nexstar's KTLA.........

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