One day this week, I saw a piece in the daily news - just a photograph with a caption. It showed the front end of a freight locomotive with a crew member standing on the front catwalk insepcting a small track that the train had hit in Vermont. The caption added that the driver of the track had ben hospitalized with multiple injuries.
While this isn't the first thread to address stupidity of pedestrians and the drivers of road vehicles, I still can't help but wonder: What goes through a driver's mind when they're at a crossing that they just blindly go in front of a speeding train? It makes me think of the time that a Long Island Railroad train that I was riding in ran over a car in Mineola because the woman who had been driving the car went half-way over a crossing and turned left onto the westbound track. The woman, who was pulled to safety before the train hit, was found to have been confused and should not have been driving.
While this isn't the first thread to address stupidity of pedestrians and the drivers of road vehicles, I still can't help but wonder: What goes through a driver's mind when they're at a crossing that they just blindly go in front of a speeding train? It makes me think of the time that a Long Island Railroad train that I was riding in ran over a car in Mineola because the woman who had been driving the car went half-way over a crossing and turned left onto the westbound track. The woman, who was pulled to safety before the train hit, was found to have been confused and should not have been driving.