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Union Pacific train strikes combine in Kansas
Well it’s good he didn’t go blaming the rr like some people do.
The lawyers have not yet had a chance to file suit.
BY REFUSING TREATMENT, HE MAY HAVE DIFFICULT TIME TRYING TO SUE RR FOR PAIN AND SUFERING.
You need to understand a farmer 's sense of personal responsibility and respect for others. That farmer was probably embarassed that he forgot to lookout for the train, probably just wanted to get his combine fixed and get back to harvesting his fields.
You need to understand a farmer 's sense of personal responsibility and respect for others. That farmer was probably embarassed that he forgot to lookout for the train, probably just wanted to get his combine fixed and get back to harvesting his fields.
I was working a CPR train between London and Windsor (Ontario, Canada) about 20 years ago and we just missed a tractor towing a liquid manure spreader. Given a choice between the combine and the spreader…I’d vote for the combine.
There’s another story on NewsWire about a CP with a blue and yellow DME unit train hitting a paint truck and the resultant effect.
Had we hit the spreader, I wonder how the critics would have viewed the combination of dark brown and red on the C-424 I was in that day? I imagine at least a few would say “it stinks”.
Nothing against the farmer… Possibly the crossing was unprotected by any type of crossing guard, but a combime?.. Although modern, still, big lumbering and slow moving… Trying to beat a train? I’m sure there was more to the accident than that…
That farmer is living on borrowed time now. Thank God nobody was hurt, and he accepted his responsibility for the moment.
The comments all assume this was a grade crossing incident, but I believe it could also be a sideswipe where the farmer was operating the combine too close to the tracks in a field along the highway at the specified road crossing.
Even driven a combine across a railroad crossing? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a combine takes up just about the entire road, and there’s plenty of stuff near a railroad crossing (signs, gates, poles, etc.) to be making sure you’re not running over or into, not to mention looking for a train. Apparently he forgot the whole “look for the train” part. As for “fixing a combine”, good luck. That’s what you have insurance for.