I for one am both saddened and angered that lives are lost in senseless accidents like this, words alone can not adequately describe how I feel about it all. If you ever have an opportunity to warn people, and I don't care how old or young they might be, about the dangers of trespassing on railroad property, then PLEASE DO NOT pass it up!
PZ, yes, it is sad. Two girls, who may or may not have understood that they were where they had no business being, were not permitted to learn that they didn't understand more than that. They didn't understand that their judgment and sensory perception were hampered by their circumstances and by their limited experience. The sad part is that those two, if it could be afforded them, would certainly gladly take the lesson and alter their behaviour from that day forward, much the wiser.
I feel badly for their bewildered and grieving families and friends. Comforting them will be a huge undertaking for many good people.
-Crandell
Sad news whatever the reason they happened.
I dunno, when I was a kid I couldn't be that casual about railroad tracks. Used to walk along the tracks to get home after baseball games -- alternative was walking along a very busy highway with no shoulders. Made me nervous just to be on the tracks 'cause I knew I didn't belong there. Plus, the railroads around our house had very heavy traffic.
PZ
What are the odds that two accidents with nearly identical circumstances could occur so close in time to each other?
http://www.uticaod.com/archive/x1579105969/Police-Rome-woman-didn-t-see-train-coming
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