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

[james_shugg@my-deja.com]

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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