Re: Beating the Odds (was: 5 Dead in XPT accident)

["Paul Nicholson" <pn1@rocketmail.com>]

Heatherdale station (Melbourne suburban network) is a location where
sometimes four or five trains can pass through without the booms raising.
I've seen it all in more than 20 years of commuting from Heatherdale. Mostly
pedestrians running across rather than wait for the second train to pass but
occasionally a car will do the Z shape weave between the booms. Fortunately,
I don't think there have been any fatalities. There was a "blitz" one night
many years ago and many people were booked. It should be repeated before
someone gets killed.
Paul in Melbourne (local resident).
<james_shugg@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3A73F026.A667F6F9@bigpond.com>,
>   jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Crazy ppl,
> >
> > I saw about 5 cars weave around a boom at cooparoo (brisbane suburb)
> one nite
> > wen the booms wouldnt come up,  they wernt coming back up because
> another train
> > was aproaching from the other direction,  at night you wouldnt see
> the train
> > come out from behind cooparoo station and was lucky no one was hit.
> >
>
> In Melbourne a few years back a police car with siren/lights operating
> (responding to an emergency) ducked around the booms as soon as the
> train had passed, only to be collected by another train coming the
> other way. The driver of a Peugeot waiting on the other side saw it all
> happening: he said the policeman floored his Commodore at the last
> minute but was not quick enough. The poor guy was killed.
>
>
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