From: baloo@ursine.ca   
      
   Lobby Dosser wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > *A*C*C*I*D*E*N*T*   
      
   *No such thing when it comes to getting in front of something guided by   
   rails.*  It's not like the train's gonna swerve to hit them if they wait,   
   or can swerve to miss them if they don't.  The driver had plenty of   
   warning, and ignored it.  Criminal negligence.   
      
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