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BNSF getting absolutely slammed by the public..and losing 26 million!
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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="wabash1"] <P><FONT size=4>I agree that you can not assume that the debris field is the point of contact, I have hit cars at 25mph and at 50 mph and the debris field at 50 mph would have ment that the car was crossing the railroad 30 feet from the crossing over just rail </FONT></P> <P>[/quote]</P><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>I believe that they said that the point of impact was determined by assuming that it coincided with either the beginning of the debris field or the first marks on the pavement left by the car during impact.</FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>The engine hit the car dead center at 59 mph.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly every part of the car would have been accelerated into motion by the train impact.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would have taken some time for the momentum of that motion to dissipate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>During that time, every part of the car would have traveled in the direction of the train movement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It therefore seems perfectly reasonable to conclude that the first part of the car to become stationary on the ground after impact would be resting downstream from the point of impact possibly as much as several yards.</FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>Regarding the first marks on the pavement left by the car during impact, BNSF argued that the impact initially lifted the car off of the pavement, and therefore, the first marks on the pavement were actually downstream from the point of impact.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva><FONT size=2>So the whole theory of signal failure rests upon where the vehicle was when it was hit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that determination is founded upon the assumption that the point of impact could not have proceeded the beginning of the debris field, or the first marks on pavement, by as much as 15 feet when a ten-foot-wide locomotive hit a ten-foot-long vehicle dead center, broadside at 59 mph.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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