Three dead.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/30/us/south-carolina-amtrak-vehicle-crash/index.html
I know it’s not as concise, but the headline and story should say: “motorist places car full of people in front of oncoming train”.
Ed
One more for the Darwinian score. You are correct but the headline could be worse. Just hope it was not a very rare crossing signal failure.
Amtrak - Gene Pool Cleanser
I really wish people would refrain from the “darwin” and “gene cleanser” comments.
Just completely no-class.
With over 50 years of dealing with these kinds of incidents repeatedly both in the field and in the office and dealing with the disruption the events cause - class has been beaten out of me by the number of the events.
Trains are not toys and the damage they cause to a human body is beyond words to describe.
Still tasteless.
And that’s coming from someone in the field as well.
Given the hour, one has to consider impairment of some sort. Add to that a possible group mentality (“you can make it!”) and you have the recipe for disaster.
Unfortunately the article leaves more questions unanswered than answered.
I suppose following the old “what-where-when-why-how” rule before you publish doesn’t apply in this digital age anymore.
Given that fact, one wonders what personal need is served by the darwin comments made about every rail crossing incident? Never any expression of “prayers and wishes” for these victims, dead and injured.
And why isn’t this in the passenger rail forum?
“Thoughts and prayers” is so overused as to be meaningless. A stupid driver got himself and two other people killed. But, it’s always the trains fault isn’t it, given the headlines on every one of these incidents.
Fair question. But I figured the general issue is not specific to passenger trains.
You ought to hear the gallows humor in our driver’s room or safety department then when they’re watching the highlights of the driver’s dash camera footage. One of my driver’s had a near miss of a school bus that cut him off recently. All he said watching that one was the driver on that bus was a dumber than a box of rocks and every kid on that bus their parents need to buy a freaking lottery ticket as their the luckiest group he’s been around. The back door of the bus missed his truck by 6 inches as he was diving for his exit on I285 in Atlanta.
Try fire and EMS sometime.
We recently got word that our state police are now wearing body cams. I warned all my people that they needed to keep that in mind before they made an off-hand comment to a trooper at an accident, etc…
It was cold, so the motorcyclist was wearing his leather jacket backwards in an effort to stay a little warmer.
Unfortunately, he got in an accident.
They said he might had lived if the ambulance folks hadn’t tried to turn his head around…
OUCH!
If you think the Darwin award comments are bad, don’t ever hang out with people who work in a prison - prison humor would make you faint. Less than a week after I reported to work there for the first time, one of my female co-workers told a funny but XX-rated joke that took my breath away, but made the experienced people in the group laugh uproariously. Anything to take the edg off the stress . . .
I think it’s at least in part an attempt to appear sophisticated. A somewhat similar situation that bugs me is when someone says after an accident with severe injury resulting in death later in the hospital: “Well, if he had lived, he probably would have been a vegetable.”
You might give credit for that story to Dave Gardner, who recorded it in 1959 on his album " Rejoice Dear hearts".
No! it is absolute FRUSTRATION that it continued through the 51+ years of my employment as well as the 5 years I have been retired. To those DIRECTLY involved it is one or another kind of HELL, to those not DIRECTLY involved it SOSDD. After 56+ years of SOSDD one loses all sympathy for the carnage and only disgust that it continues to happen.