zugmann Flintlock76 The man in the wheelchair? Attempted suicide? Chair wheel caught in the gap? Mentally out of it? Who knows? A paucity of information there. https://goo.gl/maps/7dEEfyp9ryPnt6oA8 There's the crossing on streetview. I can pretty much guess what happened - and see a major issue that was probably at play.
Flintlock76 The man in the wheelchair? Attempted suicide? Chair wheel caught in the gap? Mentally out of it? Who knows? A paucity of information there.
https://goo.gl/maps/7dEEfyp9ryPnt6oA8
There's the crossing on streetview. I can pretty much guess what happened - and see a major issue that was probably at play.
Mod: anything placed above the top of rail is a bozo no-no. (FRA/CaPUC/AREMA)....the same goes for any striping in the foul zone
Gramp Glad this "evil" policeman wasn't defunded.
Glad this "evil" policeman wasn't defunded.
Was that political crap comment really neccesary here?
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Haven't heard pig Latin in a long time. ixnay on the ottenray. Young Frankenstein
umm...ok..?
zugmannOr you know, not have the crossing apparatus bolted in the middle of the sidewalk
As I recall the Californians had a similar problem with those idiot 'no straight through' gates for bike paths, which you couldn't negotiate easily in a wheelchair. Ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray, as we used to say in the East.
For what it's worth, oh brother do I agree with you.
Or you know, not have the crossing apparatus bolted in the middle of the sidewalk?
What time of day was this? Sheesh, you can see trains coming a mile away in either direction.
I can see an easy fix, though, one that can be retrofitted easily to these crossings. Make up 'bars' of relatively distinctive color plastic that can serve as cross 'rails' on either side of the railhead and flange gap,. spaced to guide wheelchair wheels without letting them turn. Then clearly mark that any wheelchair or scooter users have to engage these rails when crossing safely.
Alas! the discussion has been had about crossings that 'anticipate' when a train is coming and activate an 'early warning' for slow-moving people using the crossing. If I remember correctly, railroads saw the necessary scheduling as a risk to proprietary operations information that could be easily extracted by casual observation.
Flintlock76The man in the wheelchair? Attempted suicide? Chair wheel caught in the gap? Mentally out of it? Who knows? A paucity of information there.
Have you ever looked at the operation of the leading wheels of most wheel chairs ? Just turn the direction of a wheel chair less than 5 degrees and the wheel(s) swivel. Then one or both leading wheels may drop into the gauge side gap possibly up to 3 or 4 inches. I personally know someone who that happened to fortunately no train coming. Rescued by a man close by.
Speculation --- The man may have been crossing and hears the train. He then looks that way causing the wheel chair to turn and leading wheel(s) dropping into guage side.
We have a crossing that is regularly crossed by several persons daily to get to drug store, local 7-11, PO, bank, city hall, etc. It is protected by lights and gates.
Man, that's a good cop!
The man in the wheelchair? Attempted suicide? Chair wheel caught in the gap? Mentally out of it? Who knows? A paucity of information there.
That was extremely close. Was he stuck or trying something?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-police-officer-wheelchair-man-train-rescue
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