[PRCo] Re: Interurban Accidents (fwd)

[John Swindler]

The side crashes that I was initially thinking about were railroad grade 
crossings - where the auto driver would claim that they never saw the train. 
  But yes, LRT also.

Likewise, in accidents where an auto wipes out a motorcycle, usually with 
the auto making a left turn in front of the cycle - drivers frequently claim 
thay never saw the cyclist.   Perhaps it is a conditioned response to react 
to autos and trucks.

And then there was the railroad grade crossing reported in the Memphis paper 
about 3 years ago:  two drivers drove around lowered crossing gates and ran 
into each other.  <g>  (collision occurred off of the rr tracks, so that 
train not involved in accident.)

John


>From: prcopcc at p-r-co.com
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "+PRCo_Email_List" <Pittsburgh-Railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Interurban Accidents (fwd)
>Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:55:43 -0700
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> > John Swindler writes:
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> > Of course the one I always like is when someone runs into the SIDE of a
> > train at a grade crossing (:>)
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> > John
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>These side crashes  *-sometimes-*  have to do with psychology.       Many
>lrvs systems have center of the highway prw, Not At All Unlike dividers on
>big highways like expressways and freeways.       So a motorist in his left
>hand lane believes that nothing operates to his right.       The fact that
>there is only one  *-lrv train-*  every 10 minutes or so adds to this
>problem of psychology - rare that when a driver is in the left lane that he
>sees  *-traffic-*  driving to his left  --  so these people make left turns
>into the path of an lrv or into the side of same.       Not a few such
>accidents when Santa Clara began operations.
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>You and I are aware of such possibilities for accidents because we are fans
>of rail - others don't have this embedded in memory.
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>Jim__Holland
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