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BNSF Roadmaster Killed & Cell Phone Distraction
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">There is no way to know why the victim did not look both ways before crossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It</span> might have been that he was either distracted from looking or simply forgot to look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in either case, he also had to be distracted or impaired from hearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the train blowing the horn as it was, either sight or hearing would have alerted him to the danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It does appear to be an established fact that he was on a cell phone, and because cell phone conversations can be a distraction, it might have distracted him from looking and hearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or perhaps he simply forgot to look, and the cell phone distracted him from hearing as a backup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Here is a report that raises a lot of questions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"></span><a href="http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1725870.shtml"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1725870.shtml</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It interviews an eyewitness who saw the BNSF employee get hit by the train, and reports that the victim was talking on a cell phone when he got hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">There were two cameras onboard the two trains that recorded the images of the employee getting hit by the train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They recorded the images in sufficient detail to show the victims shuffling though a stack of papers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">An Anoka County sheriff’s spokesman said that the victim got hit by the train while talking on a cell phone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Yet, BNSF says they cannot confirm that the victim was talking on a cell phone at the time of the accident.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">And then incredibly, BNSF says they are investigating whether the victim violated company policy by talking on a cell phone. </span></span></p>
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