[PRCo] Re: Electric Railway Accidents

[Boris Cefer]

Absolutely correct! Tracks are for trains / streetcars and automobiles may
disrupt their territory only when necessary and with extreme discretion.
When such an accident happens, it is only because the auto was at a wrong
place at a wrong time. It is not a failure of the train because it is
supposed to be there, on the track. The fact that the auto driver did not
know about the train can't be considered a lawful justification.
Agreed?

B

----- Original Message -----
From: <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:42 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Electric Railway Accidents


> Headline - The Acela Train did not hit the car - the car hit the Acela
Train!
>
> People run into trains, and trains don't run into people.   My father in
law, was hit by a train
> in Georgia and just before he died, he said it was his fault, he thought
he could out run
> the train.   Electric Railway, Regular Railway, Streetcar or whatever they
all run on tracks and
> the driving American Public must realize this.   From the earliest of
trains or streetcars they have
> "cowcatchers' built on the front of them.