Question: What happens eight or nine times a day, kills more than 250 people a year, and injures almost 850 more? . Answer: trains hitting cars or trucks at railroad crossings. The injuries and deaths are bad enough, but the real tragedy is that every one of those incidents could have been avoided. . Spearheaded…
In order to stay up-to-speed on transportation and, more specifically, rail issues, I use Google Alert which collects and sends me emails several times a day with links to news items involving Amtrak or train travel. And almost every day, day after day, there is a story about an Amtrak train striking a car or…
There has been a rash of accidents lately involving individuals being hit by trains while walking on or near — make that too near — railroad tracks. Some of these incidents could well have been suicides, but it appears that most were the result of carelessness. (Like grade crossing accidents involving motor vehicles, these incidents…
Amtrak’s Silver Star runs daily in each direction between Miami and New York City. This past Saturday, the train hit a car near Orlando, Florida. Three young people, all in their 20s, were killed. A fourth person is in critical condition. Their car drove past flashing lights and around the barriers at a grade crossing….