Re: (VIC)Person hit By Train.

[taliesin@chariot.net.au (Taliesin Walker)]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:59:47 +1000, Chris Gordon
<cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote:

>> >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.
My experience of crossing railways has been that if a train is
approaching the driver blows the horn thus alerting me if for some
reason I was not paying proper attention. I guess that doesn't work if
you've got headphones on or you're deaf.

Tali