Truck Driver Killed By Commuter Train

sad story. rip driver.

 

How can you not see or hear a train?

 

here's a couple of ideas...

1) put warnings ON THE TRACK, about 3 miles away in BOTH directions, the track IS NOT CLEAR, and then the train MUST SLOW DOWN..???

2) that warehouse seems to have enough frontage to be taken away and paved over to allow sight side backing, not what appears to be a blindside he was doing.

3) work out a deal with the neighboring business to use their yard as a cut through to the loading dock..???

i dunno, seems to me if EVERYONE KNEW this was gonna happen "some day", it's the typical BS, "let's wait till someone dies, before we do anything"

i had 2 warehouse in MA, i think one was in Lee, the other in Adams, that we had to back over R/R tracks as well....

however, those tracks were on private property, and any train being there, (to drop off or pick up a car) would have been at a crawl..

 

said it was a blind curve?

maybe the train engineer did not sound his horns?

 

maybe it was one of those hybrid electric/diesel engines that the train has?

 

You can do that very easily with a set of highway flares set about 600 feet minimum from the blocking point in both directions. The engineer will need about that much room to apply and execute a emergency. ALL trains stop automatically on a red signal when it's spotted however you have it deployed. Flares come to mind as the best way to do it.

The Customer Dock needs to be torn down and relocate the entire business so this stupid and foolish way of backing trucks over active tracks no longer continues. Its not acceptable. No wonder someone got killed.

 

All locommotives are diesel / electrics. A hybrid locomotive would be one with a catenary that allows a engineer to turn off the diesel when running on overhead power.

What may have been more likely is some one my have removed the whistle sign telling a engineer to sound the horn. If the sign isnt there, the engineer isnt required to sound the horn.

After watching the video. The driver may have presumed it was a slow moving train. He got out when the arms dropped. Yet got back in thinking he could save the truck.

 

Dang.