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- From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Deaths on Railroad Property: common sense or am I an Idiot?
- Message-ID: <61gawB6w165w@1776.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 08:37:28 EST
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- drx@chinet.chi.il.us (Scott Whittle) writes:
- > I was at a crossing gate while a full train from Chicago rolled in to dump
- > off its load of exec. types. While the trains patrons where all just about
- > off and people were clearing the area, i notice this 20 something girl
- > starting to crawl under the train to get to the other side. ... ALL this
- > just as the train was getting ready to move again! I sat there in my
- > parked car in amazement! I couldn't believe that I was perhaps watching the
- > single most stupid person on the face of the earth!
-
- I wish she really was the only one that stupid, but a similar incident hap-
- pened in the Boston suburbs a few years ago. The RR was the ex-B&A E/W main,
- used by MBTA commuter trains, a couple of Amtrak intercity trains, and numer-
- ous high-speed freights. One of the "street people" who prowl the area
- around the Framingham yard didn't want to walk around a parked MBTA train, so
- he (actually it may have been a woman; I'm not sure) crawled under it. No
- big deal: the train was at the end of the line (and the crawler undoubtedly
- knew it) and wasn't going anywhere for 20 minutes or so. But what the crawl-
- er didn't know was that a freight train was approaching on the other track.
- He made it past the MBTA train; the freight train cut him in half.
-
- When the inevitable suit got to court, a mistrial was declared because the
- jury was told that the victim had crawled under the MBTA train. The court
- ruled that all the jury could hear was that the man was on the track and got
- hit by a freight train.
-
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