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marklaken
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Real hard on train engineers - they frequently change professions after being involved in fatal train crashes
as for gates on every crossing, it's all about money - and gates don't ensure safety
Illinois had some cage type gates that were supposedly safer because you couldn't drive through or around them - imagine 10' tall chain link fence that goes straight up and down - the gates trapped a car full of teenagers in the crossing and I believe the kids were all killed when the train hit them
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53 0val
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| No one ever talks about the poor train crews, and this isn't easy for them. Just saying. |
My uncle was an engineer for Southern Pacific in the 60's. He hit two cars, killing both drivers........................and lived with that "guilt" the rest of his life. That's the first thing I think about whenever I hear that there has been an accident. 
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TeamSpatula
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Location: WNC
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Its sad that someone has to die before they decide to put up the boom gates.
Seriously, why doesn't every rail road crossing have the gates? |
How far do we have to go to protect people from themselves? It's sad, but all the safety measures in the world can't save everybody.
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Very true. It's amazing how many accidents involve people driving around gates, because they think they can beat the train...
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Gary
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A couple of years ago, up in Edmond, Oklahoma, some smart-ass teenager tried to beat the morning train. His car was hit and knocked into the ditch and the police issued him a ticket. A few people were up in arms because the kid lived, so he should therefore not have been ticketed after having survived such a traumatic experience. The police stuck to their guns and pointed out the kid's stupidity.
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Air-Cooled Head
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| Wow, that's really sad! Not even because it's a bug, but because she had no chance at all of surviving. You have to be paying attention when you drive. |
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You'd be surprised how many idiots have near-misses all the time. |
You said it. And it has to be a lack of attention. I mean, how does a train sneak up on someone?
Unfortunately, someone being killed by a commuter train is almost a monthly thing here. It was in the local news twice last week alone.
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notchback
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You said it. And it has to be a lack of attention. I mean, how does a train sneak up on someone?
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If you're deaf, walking down the tracks and texting, I can see how it can happen.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/15/miss.deaf.texas/index.html
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Looks like someone else picked her up instead.
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ach60 
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Link
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The white tarp is to cover the dead,
They have to take the Jimmy some where to cut S10 from around them.
Go to youtube & type train wreck, lots of people mess up.
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2true
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| 53 0val wrote: |
| coad wrote: |
| No one ever talks about the poor train crews, and this isn't easy for them. Just saying. |
My uncle was an engineer for Southern Pacific in the 60's. He hit two cars, killing both drivers........................and lived with that "guilt" the rest of his life. That's the first thing I think about whenever I hear that there has been an accident. |
He should have felt no "guilt". It takes a mile to stop a train. He was as much a unfortunate victim as the drivers of the cars. |
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mustard_madman
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I spy a Datsun Z!
Looks like some salvageable engine parts from the Bug though!
My sympathies to the driver/passengers!
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stupidsongs2
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wow i'm crushed by this story.  |
lol, you bastard |
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jnr356
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it happened in a country area out of melbourne
most country roads don't have boom gates,only at major intersections
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fred69vert
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When I was in High School in NC (many years ago) I drove a school bus (legal for teenagers then). There was a RR crossing just up the road from the school, and of course busses were required to stop for all crossings. I stopped there so many times with the bus that I found myself stopping for that crossing with my car for a couple of years afterward.
I am a firm believer in the Law of Gross Tonnage. I stay out of the way of trains, semis, cement mixers, and soccer moms in Hummers!
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Gary
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When I was in High School in NC (many years ago) I drove a school bus (legal for teenagers then). There was a RR crossing just up the road from the school, and of course busses were required to stop for all crossings. I stopped there so many times with the bus that I found myself stopping for that crossing with my car for a couple of years afterward.
I am a firm believer in the Law of Gross Tonnage. I stay out of the way of trains, semis, cement mixers, and soccer moms in Hummers! |
I always heard it called, The Lugnut Rule -- "He who has the most or the largest lugnuts rules the road".
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bvolks
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My parents, grandmother and 4 year old brother slid in front of a train on icy roads on Dec. 23, 1969 at an unmarked crossing in their 1959 Beetle. The car was dragged about a thousand feet and torn in two (broke wheels off, broke the engine from the tranny) but all of them walked away from it with only cuts and bruises. I guess you wouldn't have thought anyone could have walked away from it. Incredibly, they were all home for Christmas that year. I'll try to find a pic of it. Since automobile insurance wasn't mandatory back then, Dad had to pay for repairs to the front of the train.
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bvolks
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| My parents, grandmother and 4 year old brother slid in front of a train on icy roads on Dec. 23, 1969 at an unmarked crossing in their 1959 Beetle. The car was dragged about a thousand feet and torn in two (broke wheels off, broke the engine from the tranny) but all of them walked away from it with only cuts and bruises. I guess you wouldn't have thought anyone could have walked away from it. Incredibly, they were all home for Christmas that year. I'll try to find a pic of it. Since automobile insurance wasn't mandatory back then, Dad had to pay for repairs to the front of the train. |
I came across the back half of it in the woods a few years ago.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: Bug Squashed By Train |
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You made us wait 11 years to see the photo?!
lol
Miracle they survived. |
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62DoKaGuy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Bug Squashed By Train |
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You made us wait 11 years to see the photo?!
lol
Miracle they survived. |
A simple pause for dramatic effect.
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jeffrey8164
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Bug Squashed By Train |
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Completely Awesome!
Thanks for the follow up.
Well, not awesome that people were hurt but you know what I mean.
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crukab
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Bug Squashed By Train |
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A few years ago I took a job at a food factory, the woman that owned it has 4 boys, the oldest for what ever fucking reason thought it would be Hot? to have sex in the back seat of his car w/ his girlfreind ON the tracks, and yep, they got hit by a Train....  Dudes living in mommy's basment in wheel chair from now on...... Yet another Darwin award winner.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: Bug Squashed By Train |
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| A few years ago I took a job at a food factory, the woman that owned it has 4 boys, the oldest for what ever fucking reason thought it would be Hot? to have sex in the back seat of his car w/ his girlfreind ON the tracks, and yep, they got hit by a Train.... Dudes living in mommy's basment in wheel chair from now on...... Yet another Darwin award winner. |
Strictly speaking, he is ineligible for a Darwin Award. He is still alive, and maybe already passed on his genes in the incident.
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