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The example I was taught by Operation Lifesaver is that the typical freight train hitting a car is roughly the equivalent of a car running over a beer can. I would NEVER condone drinking and driving, but a beer can is probably more representative of the actual protection an automobile would provide against a freight train. I have seen what a freight will do to a mid sized American car... the young lady involved got ejected from the car, flew through the air, (no seat belts) and as the Highway Patrol gently put it, "impacted the ground with such force as to cause massive head trauma." Six months later, she has had her heart stop three times in the hospital... came out of her coma and I understand she is actually learning to talk again. Her college student days are over. The show "Real TV" did a bit with Operation Lifesaver where they mounted cameras inside a school bus and ran two locomotives through it. Pretty scary pictures. The Army in Europe back in the 70's used to do an annual picture of M60A1 tanks rolling over a Volkswagon bug. The point was to try and get tank drivers to pay a little attention to where they were going and how they were getting there. A side effect of that picture was a reminder to the rest of us to stay the hell out of the way of tanks moving at 30 miles an hour. Perhaps Lifesaver should persuade local newspapers to run similar photos... though I haven't heard of a sane locomotive engineer who would willingly run his train through a car...
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