This is partly why Brightline can’t be said to be HSR:
FRA rules require true HSR speed rail to be grade separated from car infrastructure, full stop. The segments of CAHSR in LA and the Bay Area that aren’t rade separated are set to run around 110 mph instead of the 220 mph it’ll be rocking in the tunnels (yeah, you heard me) and the almost fully grade separated central valley.
Also, it’s bewildering to me that train vs car crashes happen at all still, unless they’re suicides. These are all preventable and easily predictable outcomes that any reasonable person should be able to anticipate.
I can understand not paying attention to a train coming down the tracks, because it’s such an ordinary thing. What I can’t understand is:
Parking on the tracks at all. It’s not like your blue lights mean shit to a freight train. Just, why?
Detaining that person in the one vehicle on the railroad tracks. You’ve got like five cars to pick from, and you choose the one sitting on railroad tracks and then don’t move it. Come on.
All in all, it was an extraordinarily careless mistake and they should be held accountable for it the same way anyone should be held accountable for grossly negligent choices.
The question is, when you come to a train crossing and it’s safe to cross, do you go fast or slow down ‘just in case’? I slow down but can’t help thinking that’s more dangerous. But then I think, do I want to be going fast if I do get hit?
This is partly why Brightline can’t be said to be HSR: FRA rules require true HSR speed rail to be grade separated from car infrastructure, full stop. The segments of CAHSR in LA and the Bay Area that aren’t rade separated are set to run around 110 mph instead of the 220 mph it’ll be rocking in the tunnels (yeah, you heard me) and the almost fully grade separated central valley.
Also, it’s bewildering to me that train vs car crashes happen at all still, unless they’re suicides. These are all preventable and easily predictable outcomes that any reasonable person should be able to anticipate.
can’t help but think of the time cops handcuffed a woman, put her in their cruiser, and left it on the train tracks
Former Colorado officer avoids jail for putting handcuffed woman in police vehicle that was hit by train
I can understand not paying attention to a train coming down the tracks, because it’s such an ordinary thing. What I can’t understand is:
Parking on the tracks at all. It’s not like your blue lights mean shit to a freight train. Just, why?
Detaining that person in the one vehicle on the railroad tracks. You’ve got like five cars to pick from, and you choose the one sitting on railroad tracks and then don’t move it. Come on.
All in all, it was an extraordinarily careless mistake and they should be held accountable for it the same way anyone should be held accountable for grossly negligent choices.
This woman sacrificed her health and property to protect our brave officers and you want the both of them to be prosecuted? Outrageous
The question is, when you come to a train crossing and it’s safe to cross, do you go fast or slow down ‘just in case’? I slow down but can’t help thinking that’s more dangerous. But then I think, do I want to be going fast if I do get hit?
If you get hit, the speed your car is traveling prior to impact will make no difference. Where your car gets hit might matter.
Probably just adds more force to the equation unless it’s the difference between hitting the front and back of the car.