http://abcnews.go.com/US/women-survive-run-freight-train/story?id=24758554
You can’t fix stupid.
Amazingly they survived unharmed by laying flat between the rails, and they then fled the seen after the train stopped. Police have since located the two women and trespassing charges are likely pending.
No word on how many bottles of Tide were necessary to clean their shorts afterwords.
Amazing! And they had the presence of mind to lay down between the rails… I wonder what percentage of the population would be quick witted enough to do that.
You can hear the engineer plug the train just as it starts onto the trestle….and bet your bottom dollar these two will now sue the carrier for emotional harm…there should have been a covered walkway or something for them to use while they trespassed.
The lawyers are already lining up…
Hopefully these ladies get a stint in jail to reflect on what they did (and on how lucky they are to be alive).
“Train runs over two women trespassing on high bridge and survive” I’m glad the train survived. [:)]
Maybe the crew should get a lawyer and sue for emotional distress ?
How many of us have read the comments to the news story? One was made out of pure ignorance: "Most engineers end up killing one person a year on the tracks, and many develop PTSD as a result. "
A person a year per engineer is a gross overestimation, however, for those operating over the road, the question is when, not if.
We have the same problem on our line. I haven’t had to dump a train yet, but the horn has gotten a good workout more than a few times.
We have one short bridge that is blind in both directions, and has been known to be occupied by “pedestrians” on more than one occasion.
Suing the women might work if they have assets that can be ceased. No point in suing people who don’t have anything of value.
Those two’s greatest assets are being washed out of their undergarments as we speak. I don’t know why the railroad would bother with them. I’m sure they have profited from the experience as much as they ever will (the trespassers, that is), and prosecution will just be a drag on the bottom line.
Still, I suppose there is the principle of it all…
-Crandell
Good thing they weren’t too fat!
Good one, Crandell. [swg]
To bad they didn’t get a good smack in the head by the plow. Not enough to kill them but to knock some sense in them!!! I feel bad for the engineer, he probably will have emotional distress about this. Thankfully thy weren’t killed which would have been a lot worse for the crew. Hopefully the RR will push for the maximum amount of jail time and then sue these two till they have nothing. They already have the attention of the media, might has make an example of the two to discourage others from trespassing. This would also be a great time for a spokesman for the railroad to talk to the media about safety around trains to educate the public. Maybe a great time for operation lifesaver to be promoted. Maybe RRs and media will work together to educate the public, and decrease trespassing an deaths.
Either moronic hillbillies or illegals !!!
I am confused about how the women eventually got off the bridge.
Did they crawl the length of the engines to the front to get out or did they go sideways to the edge and walk off that way… If there is room to get out from under at the side and walk along side, why didn’t they just stand at the side instead of lying down in the gauge? Certainly does not appear to be any room at either side and I don’t think there would be something to hang onto on the side of the engines. Did they get up on the engine from one end and use the walkway along the sides? Was the train so short that they walked back across the bridge behind the engines/train?
I am guessing that the train cleared their position on the bridge before it came to a stop. Then they would have to make a decision of where to get off th bridge.
They might qualify for places in a "Nutri-Systemz’ Commercial ?
The Space between the top of the ties and the bottom parts of the diesel is ( I think) pretty close to 10 inches… They had to be fairly svelt, to fit in that space; or they would not have been able to turn another cheek-ever.
I don’t doubt that the train had cleared the bridge before it stopped. Incidentally, I doubt that anything would be accomplished by telling newspeople that a trains do not have an “emergency brake,” which was reported to have been used in this incident I am sure that they were rather embarrassed, and did not want to risk having to talk with anyone connected with the railroad–so they may have gone to the end away from the train and vanished into the landscape for a while. If they had needed to get to the other end, I wonder how long it was before they dared to try again.
NBsnooze described the clearance as eleven inches - not much less than the height of barbed wire on a combat obstacle course. They also stated that the women would be prosecuted for criminal trespass. I interpret that to mean that the county will prosecute, and probably pay their public defender as well.
Chuck