Western Railroad Discussion > What's happened there?

A friend sent me this picture he found in Instagram. No caption on it. Does somebody knows what happened in this scene? I see some firefighter trucks behind to The Sounder train.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,

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Well, guessing about the dirt bike laying on it's side, probably a trespasser strike. Sad.

wpdude Wrote:
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> Well, guessing about the dirt bike laying on it's
> side, probably a trespasser strike. Sad.
Guess the fellow who posted it thought a dirt bike there was normal.

It might have been this 2011 incident...

Failed stunt lands dirt bike on Sounder train tracksOriginally published January 26, 2011 at 8:49 pm Updated January 27, 2011 at 12:16 am A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a 23-year-old man who tried a stunt on a dirt bike wound up landing on Sounder commuter train tracks north of Tacoma.Spokesman Ed Troyer says the unidentified man was critically injured and taken to Madigan Army Medical Center.Troyer says several friends gathered late Wednesday afternoon to watch the man try to jump the dirt bike over a ditch.But he ended up on the tracks as a train approached. The spokesman says the friends got the man off the tracks but a train hit and dragged the bike.

Greg Stadter
Phoenix, AZ



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/22 08:47 by E25.

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

I would expect such a stunt to be timed to jump a train - his friends ready to caputre the moment. There are several recordings on the Internet of people attempting such stunts over railroads and highways.

BAB Wrote:
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> wpdude Wrote:
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> > Well, guessing about the dirt bike laying on it's
> > side, probably a trespasser strike. Sad.
> Guess the fellow who posted it thought a dirt bike
> there was normal.

Or, because he lives in Brazil, wanted the opinion of others.

mapboy

Yes, just looking the scene we can not be sure of happened there. Sometimes ago a couple of guys almost were killed by a Rumo grain train here in Brazil when they were running with birt bike inside the tracks. They met two trains side by side on a 
A friend sent me this link of movie down there in US. I imagine the guy in question was trying to do the same.

http://youtu.be/wY8-AIDjUCc

> Or, because he lives in Brazil, wanted the opinion
> of others.
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> mapboy

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Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/22 10:34 by pedrop.

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There's always a topper ;-)

Youth is wasted on the young.- sigh !