“The TRAIN ALWAYS WINS!”
“The TRAIN ALWAYS WINS!”
3/28/02
Every now and then we get the call for a “Vehicle verses Train” collision.
Sometimes it’s a bogus call.
Sometimes it’s an intentional suicide.
But for the most part, when we get there and it’s a real “grinder”, it turns out to be someone who was in a hurry. Someone who misjudged the speed of the on-coming train and drove around the gates. Sometimes its kids, sometimes its adults, but all the time they turn up dead! The train that looks big and slow from a distance is actually a rolling missile when it goes by you. You know that! You’ve been the first car in line at a train crossing before.
I work primarily marine patrol now, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such traumatic and shocking destruction and mutilation that can be done to the human body than by a fast moving boat and propeller. Except for what a fast moving train can do to a carload of people. It’s shocking.
