Re: (VIC)Person hit By Train.

[Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>]

> >Someone was hit by a train at Nunadwaing eariler today. The female was
> >crossing the Rooks Rd Crossing, wearing head phones and didn't hear the
> >train coming. NOt sure if she was killed or what..
> 
> This crossing has large red striped boom gates. Admittedly there's no
> pedestrian gates, IIRC, but still, I don't know how someone could not
> notice the main gates being down...

A crib crossing is designed to make the person face both ways before
crossing the line, but as post people I see walk around them, they don't
fully turn and don't see up and down the line, or they walk looking at
the ground, or and too spaced out to notice anything anyway.



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