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Operation Lifesaver launches new rail safety campaign
Operation Lifesaver does great things and this new program highlights that fact. There is only one problem and that is with the uneducated public: you can’t fix stupid. Hopefully this new program in conjunction with OL will help with this problem.
Back in 2003 I took the Operation Lifesaver course. It was very helpful to learn how to cross Railroad tracks safely. A short time later a young lady’s car was stalled on the BNSF track in Castle Rock Colorado. She died when a freight train could not stop in time and the locomotive hit her car. The young lady died because she did not know what to do when the train came down the track.
I almost hit a locomotive in the dump truck I was driving down a hill in Colorado Springs. I had a load of rock on the truck when a train arrived at a crossing. I was going down the hill. I had a plan of what I would do if a train was going across the road I was driving on. I was glad I had a plan that would stop the truck if a train was crossing the street when I was driving down the hill. I was able to stop the heavy truck in about two truck lengths and I was about three truck lengths away from the tracks.