Passenger Trains > Amtrak GOP train incident update

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/21/truck-hit-by-train-carrying-gop-lawmakers-was-in-crossing-after-warning-ntsb-says.html

As most with sound minds thought was probable...another cowboy-of-the-road truck driver who did not think that laws and the rules of the road applied to him.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/18 11:09 by GenePoon.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> As most with sound minds thought was
> probable...another cowboy-of-the-road truck driver
> who did not think that laws and the rules of the
> road applied to him.

A municipal trash truck driver can hardly be called a over the road truck driver.

Besides, for every truck driver that ignores a traffic law, there are probably hundreds of car drivers that do the same.

Wonder why it took so long for this information to be released? There were multiple witnesses on the train and there should have been the forward facing camera.

This is still preliminary information. Of course the locomotive camera would see the gates were down as the crossing is preceded by a curve, but would not see them activate. Local residents still say that the gates malfunction, at times being down with no train passing.

.....and if it weren't for who the passengers on the train were,
we wouldn't even be talking about this!
zr190

The BB could face some FRA questions. If the gates were frequently down with no trains approaching, the garbage truck driver, with frequent trips across the crossing, could have been lulled into a complacent sense "like the little boy who cried wolf"

mp208 Wrote:
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> The BB could face some FRA questions. If the
> gates were frequently down with no trains
> approaching, the garbage truck driver, with
> frequent trips across the crossing, could have
> been lulled into a complacent sense "like the
> little boy who cried wolf"

But that in now way can be used as an excuse for not obeying traffic laws.

If "the gates were down frequently" and Buckingham Branch didn't do anything / or do much to fix the problem, that might be of interest, too.