From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Paul Johnson  wrote:   
      
   > 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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