Always expect a train ---

[kinzel]

On or near the tracks? Always expect and always respect the train ...

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/BREAKING-Amtrak-Train-Fire-Truck-Collide/_NtjejMHoESBFPmpsGAhEg.cspx?hpt=T2

Comments

[star-gazersusan.livejournal.com]

Yup, this is my neck of the woods. As one of my co-workers aptly wondered "whose bright idea it was it to park ON the train tracks".

Those Amtrak trains come through at 40-60 miles per hour! And they don't stop except for the next station.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

This is, I feel, an occasion for the term *facepalm*...

[star-gazersusan.livejournal.com]

Oh - very much so!

[jack_calls_dances]

Um...fire and police vehicles. Aren't they usually the people *responding to* idiots who stop their cars on the tracks? What were they thinking??

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thought of you and this thread when I saw this piece on the BBC's website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8683750.stm