Wow! That does not look good at all.
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The car was dragged over one km., female driver fatally injured. :( Train was unloaded and continued empty after 3.5 hours.
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Having responded to many of these, even thought it was a fatal accident, I have seen much worse collision with trains. You get a very bad feeling when you get the page for a "10-52, train v. car" as they normally don't make it.
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Public Photos like this really show the outcome. Thanks for sharing, more will learn by seeing this. The locomotive has no damage at all.
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| Posted by Allen Deyo on June 21, 2007 | |
~300,000 pounds vs. ~4,000 pounds isn't a fair fight. People need to learn that it's not worth risking your life at crossings to save a couple minutes.
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You would think people would learn from seeing this but they dont.
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| Posted by Carl on July 17, 2011 | |
Sometime ago on Good Morning America there was a story about a teenage girl that took her mother's car without her mom's permission to visit some friends or something like that and while on a county road in the fog at night she was sitting at a rail crossing with the gates down(no lights) when another driver hit her from behind and pushed her into the path of an freight train and while the train was dragging her and the car down the track you can hear her talking to the 911 operator, the operator was trying to ask the young girl where she was but because of the noise of the impact and her crying over the phone to the operator that she didn't know where she was, the train dragged her about 1500ft before the engineer was able to stop his train. Believe it or not, she lived but badly bruised on her face and body, she appeared on GMA to tell her story.
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| Posted by Carl on November 25, 2015 | |
Like the saying goes," when a 11,000 ton train meets a 3,000 pound car at the same time,the train wins" or play stupid games,win stupid prizes.
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