Greg Plitt Was Killed Filming an Energy Drink Commercial

Update: Greg Plitt was killed by a train while filming an energy drink commercial.

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 ahead of the locomotive. The video shows the train catching up and hitting Greg Plitt, who died after being thrown from the tracks.

Police reportedly found several empty engergy drinks at the scene and told TMZ that Plitt was 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 copy a superhero when he was killed.

Celebrity trainer killed while shooting a fitness video.

Greg Plitt, an actor, model and Bravo TV personality, died Saturday after he was hit by a train in Burbank, California. According to reports, he was shooting a motivational fitness video at the time. “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.”

Gregg Plitt was a West Point graduate who appeared in several TV shows including Days of Our Lives, and Bravo reality shows, Work Out and Friends to Lovers. 

“We couldn’t take our eyes off Greg Plitt after we cast him on “Work Out”-was as nice as he was beautiful. Seemed invincible, like Superman,” Andy Cohen tweeted Sunday.

From CNN:

Police have ruled out suicide, Burbank Police Sgt. Chris Canales said. Plitt, 37, was shooting video with a small crew on the southbound track of the Burbank Metrolink station when an oncoming train struck him.

Witnesses told police the train horn was blaring at the time of the accident, Canales said. It is unclear whether the crew captured footage of the incident.

Greg Plitt has a history of working out on train tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQpNZy_Ti50

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