12-22-2010, 11:57 PM
Luckily, it wasn't something like LPG or ethanol. Or cholorine. At least, according to the video information. It could have been a LOT worse. There are some interesting others linked to that one, including one that is a bit liek what FCIN described - someone forgot to line the switch and the overtakign train heads into the siding and slams intot he rear car of the train. ANd a rather awful sideswipe, the video is from the cab of the train that had a take siding signal but the guy coming the other way on the main didn't bother stopping. In that one you can see a crew member bailing out of the loco of the train that didn't stop where it was supposed to.
And of course plenty of videos of people in cars and trucks being absolute IDIOTS around crossings. I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for the drivers who do that stuff. Their innocent passengers, and the crew of the train who has to live with knowing that they just killed someone, yes. It boggles the mind how people don't seem to have the least bit of common sense. DO they think trains just never run on the track they just parked across, or do they think the train will just stop?
--Randy
And of course plenty of videos of people in cars and trucks being absolute IDIOTS around crossings. I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for the drivers who do that stuff. Their innocent passengers, and the crew of the train who has to live with knowing that they just killed someone, yes. It boggles the mind how people don't seem to have the least bit of common sense. DO they think trains just never run on the track they just parked across, or do they think the train will just stop?
--Randy
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