Planes, Trains, & Automobiles: Purchase of a Ticket Does Not Guarantee Transportation

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-06-27 21:27

https://twitter.com/jdbalart/status/...773gRcV8g&s=19

This shit sucks so bad

**6souls** · 2022-06-28 00:02

Originally Posted by 6souls

https://news.yahoo.com/amtrak-derail...195436261.html

Amtrak derailment in Mendon, MO after a collision with a dump truck.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-passengers-...uri/a-62283423

Three dead (one of them being the truck driver) and 50 injured. Crash happened at a crossing that didn't have lights or electronic indicators to warn that a train was coming.

**Koyangi** · 2022-06-28 03:30

Sounds safe.

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-06-28 07:54

I didn't realize that was a thing

**Day** · 2022-06-28 08:03

he didn't look both ways, look how flat that is, you can see something coming from nebraska

**Jaybar** · 2022-06-28 09:09

There's a crossing in the northern Chicago burbs with passenger and freight rail passing all the time. No indicators, no guards. Big yellow sign that tells you to listen for train coming. Unfortunately if you play music in your car you ain't gonna hear it.

Also trains look hella slow when looking straight at em - probably thought he could make it not realizing the Amtrak was clearing about 120 feet a second.

**Melena** · 2022-06-28 09:52

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

I didn't realize that was a thing

We literally had a crash in Brentwood, about 90 minutes from me on Saturday that killed three people, and it's not the first fatality accident at that crossing.

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**6souls** · 2022-06-28 09:57

Originally Posted by Melena

We literally had a crash in Brentwood, about 90 minutes from me on Saturday that killed three people, and it's not the first fatality accident at that crossing.

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And no one on the train were injured in that crash.

**archibaldcrane** · 2022-06-28 10:51

Yeah but that was a dirt road on private land, less surprised there wasn't signals in that situation.

**Roranora** · 2022-06-28 12:07

a farm hand colleague from way back when was killed when hit by a train running a road grader

rural crossings can be really dangerous

**Salodin** · 2022-06-28 13:22

Originally Posted by Jaybar

Also trains look hella slow when looking straight at em - probably thought he could make it not realizing the Amtrak was clearing about 120 feet a second.

This right here. People misjudge speeds so easily. Even trained people get it wrong all the time

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**Mayareira** · 2022-06-28 15:41

Perspective and Visual Illusions are in every part of life. One of the first things they taught us in the academy was to rely on instruments over your senses whenever possible, especially in situations where spatial disorientation may occur.

Perceptions of speed, length, width can be very misleading for the untrained eye

**Zealot** · 2022-06-28 16:35

Also animals, ourselves included, have not had significant time as a species to adjust our perceptions to automobiles. It's why small animals can evade diving birds and charging dogs but still run directly under a car's tires.

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