Truck Driver Killed By Commuter Train

even with the right of way, slow da heck down. no need for fast trains, coming into a town or known dangerous crossing, and if it takes a mile as you say to stop a train...well then my arbitrary 3 mile distance for stop lights for the train works.

 

Driver jumped out of the truck because of the train. He got back in real quick to try to move it and then tried to jump out last minute jumped out at last minute. Full details in the video

 

he had to be there due to the delivery.

so he navigated properly

 

true, however, from the video, it did seem to look like he had to do a blind side in the dock area. he most likely did not see the warning lights. i am not certain that the gates come down ASAP or a few seconds after the lights. he must have been getting into a situation where he had to pull up a few times, the last (??) and then he jumped out, but then got back in again.

the city, state, county, KNOW there is a blind curve there, so do the train engineers.

slowing down around such a curve seems to me to be prudent.

 

If you can not safely dock your truck where they tell you at a customer's property, the proper thing to do is to disregard the request, park it somewhere safe, and work out some other way to sort the problem out - even if it means ignoring all the bickering and pressure, documenting the problem as best you can, returning to the nearest terminal with the load, and finding someone else to work for, because you are not actually better off dead.

 

He probably could've done more to get out of the way, but drivers shouldn't have to be worried about dodging a high speed train when they're backing into a dock. It's a very poor design and more should have been done to prevent this sort of thing from happening.