But car or person, it never sounds like a pop can from the inside. (Actually, the empty trailer part of a tractor trailer makes an amazing BOOM, and ends up half a mile down the track, sort of folded in half. The driver in that incident had gotten safely out when he got stuck on the track, so that one was merely annoying.)

I ride a commuter train 38 miles each way every day, and have done so for more than 20 years.

It's HORRID to hit something.