Was she stone cold sober?

[Anonymous]

When I walked down the tracks with the crew and police, you could see where her car was bouncing up and down on the rail. Most of the gouges were on the outside of the rail profile, because she was stradling the right rail on the left tracks. The passenger side of the car was riding lower on the ballast side. The switch throw got some tire tracks across it, but only cosmetic damage. They checked the gauge and returned the track to service. 

[vsmith]

Car collision in a parking lot, SUV leaving backed into a sedan as it drove down the aisle, dude got out of the SUV walked over to the sedan, out stepped a midget who was fuming, "I'm not happy" he snapped, to which the dude replied, "Oh, then which one of the dwarfs are you?" Dude got a steel toe boot right into his shin and went down in extreme pain.

I'll bet you witnessed it as you were walking out of the store with your purchase. It must have occured in the parking lot at WAL-MART.

Nice try, but the caffine machine is working today, so I'm muuuch better today

[Ted Marshall]

Car collision in a parking lot, SUV leaving backed into a sedan as it drove down the aisle, dude got out of the SUV walked over to the sedan, out stepped a midget who was fuming, "I'm not happy" he snapped, to which the dude replied, "Oh, then which one of the dwarfs are you?" Dude got a steel toe boot right into his shin and went down in extreme pain.

I'll bet you witnessed it as you were walking out of the store with your purchase. It must have occured in the parking lot at WAL-MART.

Nice try, but the caffine machine is working today, so I'm muuuch better today

Good thing...No need to "derail" this thread

 

[SchemerBob]

...and she is upset because she knows her car is going to be crunched.

Pretty damn selfish if you ask me then.  What about the passengers and engineer that just had to go through the wreck

I agree completely. I mean, I understand her being upset (sort of), but, if she wasn't talking on the cell phone...NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. If she was upset about her car being smashed into oblivion...well, she'd still have her car if she wasn't talking on the cell phone! Frankly, this is just what you're asking for when you talk on your cell phone while driving.

Any info as to what P42 was the lead? 

I think this is P42DC #8. If you pause the video right at the spot where the side number goes past, you can see a blurry 8. Too bad any locomotive has to get damaged because of other people's stupidity. But on a better note, it sounds like the nose will just have to be replaced and it will probably be back out on the tracks again. The woman's car....totaled.