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Amtrak Train just hit a car

KLin

KLin

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Well, an Amtrak train just hit a car right in front of my work about 15 minutes ago. It ended up about 500 yards past the railroad crossing. The car is still on the tracks in front of the train. I think they're just waiting for the coroner now. Hopefully it's no one that works with me. 🙁 Check out the local paper later on tonight.


UPDATE:

Well I just found out that the arms may not have gone down. Someone saw it happen and they said they didn't go down. If this is true, BNSF is going have a wrongful death lawsuit on their hands.


UPDATE #2:

Link to story


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Well I just found out that the arms may not have gone down. Someone saw it happen and they said they didn't go down. If this is true, BNSF is going to have a wrongful death lawsuit on their hands.
 
CHP information

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
12:44PM - 1039 PACIFIC
12:41PM - PER FIRE PERSONEL, WILL NEED MED DUTY 1185 TO PULL VEH OUT FROM UNDERNEATH TRAIN
12:31PM - 1039 OFFICE/SGT
12:31PM - 2 1144 S, KCSO ADVSNG CORONER IS ENRT
12:30PM - 1144, KCSO IS 97
12:21PM - 1039 AMBULANCE
12:21PM - 1039 TO FRESNO CHP
12:20PM - VEH VS TRAIN

RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS
12:31PM - CHP Unit On Scene
12:42PM - CHP Unit On Scene
12:53PM - CHP Unit On Scene
 
yikes, I always look both ways before proceeding slowly anyway... but never thought it would actually fail.
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
They weren't one of those douchbags that tried to drive *around* the arms, were they?
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That's what I thought at first, then I found out that the arms may not have been down in the first place. The train is now gone, but there's still about 10 vehicles out there.
 
They just took the truck out. It was just a twisted wreck of metal. It turns out it was a double-fatal. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Deeko
According to that fresobee article from your link up top, they drove around the arms.
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WHAT possesses people to do these things?

I mean, it's one thing if you wait for a long time without the arms raising, then look both ways on both tracks before quickly pulling through. But to take a gamble like that against a TRAIN?

Heck, if my vision was obscured I'd probably get out of the car and look up and down the tracks before driving over them with the gate down.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
Well I just found out that the arms may not have gone down. Someone saw it happen and they said they didn't go down. If this is true, BNSF is going to have a wrongful death lawsuit on their hands.
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sory says driver tried to circumvent lowered arms 😕
 
Originally posted by: Aharami
Originally posted by: KLin
Well I just found out that the arms may not have gone down. Someone saw it happen and they said they didn't go down. If this is true, BNSF is going to have a wrongful death lawsuit on their hands.
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sory says driver tried to circumvent lowered arms 😕
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Thanks for letting me know. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
They weren't one of those douchbags that tried to drive *around* the arms, were they?
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That's exactly what they did. Morons.

Obviously, lowered crossing arms means a train is coming! What kind of stupid idiot decides that it's a good idea to go around them anyway? :roll:

This guy gets a Darwin award for that one.
 
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