Deadly Trains
The Acela this week racked up some scary stats: one man dead, one dog dead, three seriously injured.
Yesterday, a train traveling from D.C. to Boston hit a woman in Connecticut walking her dog on the tracks, killing the dog and nearly taking off her arm. She says she heard the train, but thought it was on another track.
The day before, an Acela D.C.-to-Boston, reportedly traveling under the 55 mph limit in Providence, R.I., hit three workers inspecting the tracks, killing one of them.
“It’s a blind spot,” Richard Bonafiglia, an employee of the Cadillac Lounge, which is near the site of the accident in Providence, told the Boston Globe.
“You can’t hear those trains; they’re electric,” he said. “It takes only a second….It’s a freak accident.”
The NTSB is investigating Wednesday’s accident, and will look at the speed of the train, if the brakes were used properly, and if the train blew a warning whistle, according to a spokesperson.
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March 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
That explains why I can never hear a metro train coming. They’re electric.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Deadly trains? Sounds more like natural selection in action to me. What moron walks their dog on the train tracks? Even worse, COMMUTER train tracks where trains come though all the time?
As for the workers, you would think it is part of their job to know how to not get hit by a train. Sorry for the tragedy, yes, but it doesn’t sound like anyone was to blame other than the victims.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:39 am
there’s a reason why we call them tresspassers, they don’t belong or need to be on the track its for trains to run on not to walk your dog. As for the worker he was about to retire, God bless his family.