http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/6/13/260273.html?title=Teen+dies+when+car+hit+by+train
Direct link to story. Sad, sad, sad. Stop, look, and listen could save many lives.
OK, now I’m sad AND confused. The story doesn’t match spbed’s thread title.
I followed the link in his post and got this one. On Yahoo! News there’s a posting on the AP and it seemed to match this one. That blurb is the accident in question. Here’s a link to the whole story.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_re_us/teens_train_crash;_ylt=AjYF5QS40NZC3AI9mmUPIVvMWM0F
I gave you the link to the story. Were not 4 teens killed?
Kindly note that they hit a stopped train in this case
Yes there were. To me the story you found was a touch hard to follow because of the website it was on. I found it also on Yahoo! news. It’s probably just me![:D]
OK
(1) 15 Year old driver?[?][%-)]
(2) stolen car[:(!]
(3) accross town from where UniHead works[:-^]
(4) Care to place any bets that UP/Watco/EconoRail/BNSF still gets sued?[:(!]
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If they’d have stopped or looked…they wouldn’t have hit the train that was stopped. Of if they wouldn’t have stolen the car and been joyriding in it they wouldn’t have hit the stopped train.[:D]
I see manslaughter charges out of this.
I read the story here http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4889008.html?plckCurrentPage=31 and have been following it on Railspot. The whole thing just sounds sick. All the ingredients for disaster just lined right up for these kids and now four are dead, one is in critical condition and one in stable condition. Guess what, the one in stable condition gets to remember this for the rest of their life and perhaps can shed some more light on what happened.
I just saw it on the News here in Dallas. They said only 2 were killed and the other two were injured. But they started out saying that 4 kids stole a car and died after hitting a parked train. Then one of the parentas gets on and starts yelling because there is only a cross buck no lights. I had a police officer in Illinois that was driving way top fast and the crossing did not have lights and she rolled her car. Was in the hospital for a few days.
Mudchicken,
About as fast as you can spell lawyer?
They were traveling so fast they went completly under the tank car they hit, out the other side, and into a ditch.
Front seat passengers survived the impact, because they ducked…rear seat passengers, 4 of them, did not survive.
The skid marks from where he tried to stop…start about ten feet from the point of impact.
Jeep was stolen last night, kids, one as young as 13, out joy riding at 4:30 in the morning, and the parents want to place blame for all of this anywhere but in their own laps…what parent lets their 13 year daughter stay out to 4:30 the morning, without calling the cops when they realized the kid was gone, unless they are used to this behaviour?
[#ditto] The kind of biological entity who shouldn’t have created another life since they’re clearly incapable of raising it properly.
Update from the morning local news…the father of the 13 year old knew both his daughter and her cousin were gone, he had checked that night about 10 pm…he was on the morning news explaining how they had sat down that evening and discussed the “house rules for the summer”…
I have sympathy for him, as I have a 14 year old daughter, but if I checked at 10, and she was not in bed or watching TV in the living room with my wife, every cop on this side of town would be getting a phone call.
Makes one wonder if not finding his kid in the house at 10 pm was normal for them.
An entire car load of kids, none old enough to legally drive, out at 4:30 in the morning running around in a stolen Jeep…and one of their parents knew they were gone.
But somehow this is the railroads fault, or the Baytown police departments fault, or the people who lets them steal the Jeep…everyone’s fault but the parents.
Sad, very sad…15 years is just getting started.
Just wait till a lawyer gets hold of this. Several are probably already foaming over this.[banghead]
It should be nobody’s fault (primarily) but the parents. Teaching wrong from right and having a respect for the law would have prevented this.
I also say it is the parents fault, but anyone know how long the train was sitting there. Or which railroad it was?
My 12 year old and I discussed this last night and we chatted about the importance of making good choices in life.
Ed, I agree with you regarding the discovery of the kids being gone. He really has to ask himself some tough questions. Ultimately, the decisions were made by the kids…and that is really unfortunate, at that age they really dont have the ability to reason.
It will be interesting to see how the legal system approaches this, particularly the law enforcement (against the driver) and then the parents (against the railroad?)
ed
Park your car across a road somewhere in the middle of the night with the lights off.
I’ll bet somebody hits it.
It’s their fault, right?
They may even be stupid, morally defective and have bad parents. Is that your excuse for putting your car there?