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BNSF Roadmaster Killed & Cell Phone Distraction
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The problem with distraction is that you can’t see it coming, and by the time it arrives, you are too distracted to recognize it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So rules intended to prevent distraction must be confined to banning activities that commonly lead to distraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is impossible to foresee all the possible roads to distraction as illustrated in this historical nugget from the <i>Railroad Gazette</i>:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">October 1890</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">28<sup>th</sup>, on Baltimore & Ohio, near Barnesville, O., butting collision between passenger trains 103 and 46, wrecking both engines and several cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One engineer and an express messenger injured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engineer of train 103 heard that his son was killed in the collision at Black Hand, and was greatly depressed; at the next station he learned that the report was unfounded, and was then so overcome with joy that he forgot his train order.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
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