BBC Reporter Killed After Being Hit By Train (Photo)

 

BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Kelly Jobanputra has died aged 40 after being hit by a train, according to a report by Metro UK.

 

The journalist was killed in what is being described by her family as a ‘tragic accident’. Kelly left her home in Swindon, Wiltshire, last Friday afternoon to go shopping, but never returned.

 

The mother-of-two was killed after being struck on the line between Swindon and Didcot Parkway at around 3pm on Friday, 26 April. Kelly’s father John Stooke said in a statement: ‘We are completely and utterly bereft to lose such a vibrant, attractive, courageous and well-loved family member at such a very young age. ‘She was in good spirits when she left at lunchtime to go to Asda.

 

‘It seems that, whilst the circumstances are not at all clear, this may well have been, in the end, an unintended and tragic accident. ‘Our thoughts are not solely with the devastation to our own family. We also believe the train driver was naturally traumatised and he or she also remains very much in our thoughts and prayers.’ Kelly, previously known by her maiden name Stooke, worked on local BBC radio for 15 years before producing a daytime show for Radio 6 Music in London.

 

The 40-year-old, who was married to husband Vikesh, also wrote for Swindon Web, the Swindon Advertiser and 365 Bristol, and worked in marketing at the British Computing Society before her death. She turned 40 in April, and welcomed her second child with Vikesh last year. An inquest into Kelly’s death will be held at a later date, with her family asking people not to speculate about the cause of her death. Sadly, the Stooke family suffered tragedy 15 years ago when Kelly’s brother Corrie died from an accidental heroin overdose.