From: baloo@ursine.ca   
      
   Lobby Dosser wrote:   
      
   > "gatt"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> For the life of me, I just can't fathom how somebody can miss the fact   
   >> that an object bigger than a friggin' building is coming at them.  The   
   >> explanation on the news is that there were TWO tracks and trains going   
   >> in opposite directions. Must have been my public education and all,   
   >> but I still remember learning in the first grade, in GULFPORT,   
   >> MISSISSIPPI, to look both ways before crossing streets or the tracks.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Stop sign only. North bound freight cleared the crossing on the eastern   
   > track - closest to the car. Car starts across west bound and unable to see   
   > around the freight to the south bound Amtrack on the western track. Zero   
   > time for anyone to do anything - car or train.   
      
   Far more than enough time for the car to do something.  This wasn't a freak   
   accident, the car driver was obviously negligent.  I would argue since   
   common sense dictates when there's two tracks and you can't see one of them   
   until the first train gets far enough away that the driver was criminally   
   negligent and their family owes the railroads bigtime for the cleanup.   
      
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