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mudchicken
Member since
December 2001
From: Denver / La Junta
10,820 posts
Posted by
mudchicken
on Thursday, February 3, 2005 9:04 AM
This morning, the driver of the ambulance was charged with causing the collision.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4157650/detail.html
Denver ambulances do have pre-emption devices, but this driver chose to run the red light that did not change for him. The light protected the train in the block as it was supposed to do. There was an issue with construction activity (i.e. temporary plywood headache covered walkway barrier walls around a construction site) partially blocking the view of the intersection. RTD in Denver segregated the tracks from traffic where they could. There was very little traffic in the area on the weekend when this happened in good weather............
dtpowell - does not matter about location. In your back yard, a Cincinnati ambulance on River Road (US-50) near Sayler Park recently passed a CSX freight train and then turned in front of it only to be hit by the train. That driver is now out of a job. [V][V][V]http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/01/14/train.html
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, February 3, 2005 6:39 AM
I agree with Mustanggt. I don't see any advantage of adding a rail system to help alleviate traffic problems if mixed in with exisiting traffic! Paticularly in older cties where narrow streets dominate within the city core. Accidents can happen anywhere and it's easy to hit the broad side of a barn or lightrail vehicle in this case. What were the street conditions and other factors? If there is fault in this accident , I place it on the city planners.
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mustanggt
Member since
October 2002
From: Massachusetts
664 posts
Posted by
mustanggt
on Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:45 PM
IMHO light rail should not run in the streets anymore due to the ever growing amount of vehicles.
C280 rollin'
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BNSFGP38
Member since
December 2004
From: Cab
162 posts
Posted by
BNSFGP38
on Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:56 AM
Playing Devil advocate here.......
How well do they train thier operators to stop the trolley and yield the ROW when they see firetruck, police car or ambie......
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FThunder11
Member since
June 2003
From: Colorado Springs
728 posts
Lightrail Derail
Posted by
FThunder11
on Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:01 AM
In Daenver yesterday (1-29-05) an Ambulence responding to a call hit one of the lightrail trains. It derailed 3 cars and one of the cars went right into a camera shop. Luckly no one was killed, but there were 6 injurys. I makes you wonder how well they train the ambulwence drivers. I always thought that public service vehicles were suppossed to stop at all railroad crossings. For this kind of dmamge, the ambulence must have been going pretty fast.
Kevin Farlow Colorado Springs
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