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Passenger train's collisions with tresspassers

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Posted by schlimm on Monday, July 13, 2015 10:36 PM

Lives are lives.   We should be spending and doing more to prevent unnecessary accidents, rather than dismiss their deaths so callously.

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Posted by erikem on Monday, July 13, 2015 9:48 PM

One difference being killed by a terrorist and being killed while walking the tracks is that the deceased had a lot more to with the outcome of the latter. Compared with the number of deaths due to other lifestyle choices, the number of pedestrians killed by trains is pretty small.

Granted there are some cases such as the signal maintainer fiasco in Chicago where the fault was clearly on the RR as opposed to the driver/pedestrian.

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Posted by schlimm on Monday, July 13, 2015 3:02 PM

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It does help showcase the scale of the problem, though; these stories are usually confined to local news networks.

 

 

It's a big problem.  Since 9-12-2001, 48 persons have been killed in the US by some sort of terrorists.  We spend billions on homeland security.    However, more than 7,200 pedestrians have been fatally struck by trains in the United States since 1997. An additional 6,400 have been injured.  Each year on average about 500 are killed.  

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/hundreds-die-walking-the-tracks-each-year/article_b9c8bbcc-f424-559a-a0c4-bee46f8d4fe7.html

Add to that the large number killed annually in vehicles in grade crossing accidents.

http://oli.org/about-us/news/collisions-casulties

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Posted by NorthWest on Monday, July 13, 2015 1:40 PM

It does help showcase the scale of the problem, though; these stories are usually confined to local news networks.

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Posted by NKP guy on Monday, July 13, 2015 8:48 AM

Not just outsiders.  I think it's pretty macabre, too.

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Posted by schlimm on Monday, July 13, 2015 8:30 AM

You do realize that most outsiders would think keeping body counts like this is pretty warped?

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, July 12, 2015 8:00 PM

Two more ht in Richmond, Va trying to beat train by going around crossing gates.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/07/11/us/ap-us-train-two-killed.html?_r=0

 

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, July 9, 2015 6:22 PM
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Posted by rcdrye on Sunday, May 24, 2015 1:06 PM

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Unconfirmed report Vermonter #57 hit tresspasser in Vermont Saturday.

 

57 did hit a man who was walking with his back to the train in Braintree VT on May 10.  Track speed is 59 MPH with plenty of curves.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:22 PM

Missed several but here is another.  Delayed 48  ~ 3:00 Hrs.

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/law-enforcement/8284461

 

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, May 10, 2015 12:14 AM

Unconfirmed report Vermonter #57 hit tresspasser in Vermont Saturday.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, May 8, 2015 3:43 AM
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Posted by MikeF90 on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 2:11 PM

This morning a headphone wearing tresspasser was tagged by a Pacific Surfliner in North Hollywood:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/noho-pedestrian-struck-by-amtrak-train-listed-in-grave-condition/

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, May 1, 2015 6:46 PM
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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, May 1, 2015 9:43 AM
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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 9:58 PM

It would seem that Engineers might need help with coping with the emotional stress incurred from these accidents which they are powerless to prevent. I feel for them. I recall one talking about seeing a child looking at him just before the collision. That would have left me needing counseling. It is clear that these people either are too desperate to care or too dumb to know the consequences of their action.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:14 PM
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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 3:15 AM

Link to Star hitting tresspasser near Oakland Park Florida.  Affected TriRail passengers.  Notorious location for tresspasser and auto incidents.  

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-person-struck-by-amtrak-train-20150420-story.html

 

 

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Posted by Wizlish on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 2:36 AM

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It is also sad that whoever wrote the story does not know the title of the person who is operating the engine--saying that the conductor saw the trespasser and blew the horn.

Or that neither they nor their editor knows how to spell the thing that stops a train.

Oh well, I guess them's the breaks...

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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, April 20, 2015 8:08 PM

It is sad that anyone should be so unaware of the danger of walking on a railroad track.

It is also sad that whoever wrote the story does not know the title of the person who is operating the engine--saying that the conductor saw the trespasser and blew the horn.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:46 PM

Another tresspasser in Florida today Mteor # 97 southbound.

http://www.wfla.com/story/28850169/polk-county-pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-train

Unconfirmed that 91 also it tresspasser some where south of West Palm Beach

 

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, April 16, 2015 6:30 PM

Capitol corridor had one in San Jose today thursday.

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, April 5, 2015 1:16 PM

Two more today ( SAT ) in near Durham, NC

http://www.wral.com/police-two-hit-by-train-in-durham/14561365/

 

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:47 PM

Thought I read that the FRA said 524 trespassers were killed by trains last year.

That is more than 1 a day on average.

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Saturday, April 4, 2015 7:58 PM

Bluestreak1, Yes, PA.

Not the first one, won't be the last one for NEC. Happens more often than it should. 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Saturday, April 4, 2015 7:45 PM

Another hit on the  NEC in Deleware county, ( Pa? )

http://6abc.com/news/person-fatally-struck-by-amtrak-train-in-sharon-hill/625364/

 

 

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Friday, April 3, 2015 5:51 PM

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Passenger train's collisions with tresspassers
Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, April 3, 2015 1:08 PM

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