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

[jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com>]

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.

David & Denise Cooper wrote:

> Haven't heard all the facts on the latest XPT accident but you see the most
> amazing efforts of natural selection.
>
> I was parked at Clayton Siding (near Bundaberg) one morning last month to
> watch the northbound Tilt Train. See train headlight (visibility is very
> good on a long straight). See crossing lights activate. See car dive through
> crossing under first pair of descending booms.
>
> I'm pretty sure it was deliberate unless the driver was having total brain
> fade. He/she/it did a left turn at speed at the T intersection in front of
> me onto the crossing and would have seen the train and warning lights - not
> to mention the moving boom.
>
> rgds
> David Cooper
> (remove 'decoy' from address to reply)
>
> "Marvin The Martian" <choochoo@spin.net.au> wrote in message
> 3A733822.B9DE9A85@spin.net.au">news:3A733822.B9DE9A85@spin.net.au...
> > I can beat the train, I will beat it, SHITTTTTTT!!! crash.
> >
> > hagiss@my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > > Brisbane radio 4KQ just reported five people killed when the Sydney -
> > > Melbourne Overnight XPT ran into a car on a level crossing near the
> > > Victorian border, around 4am today, Saturday 27th Jan 2001.
> > >
> > > No one on the XPT was injured.
> > >
> > > Countrylink spokeperson said it would look into the accident to find
> > > out why the vehicle was on the tracks at the level crossing.
> > >
> > > No mention of damage to the XPT.
> > >
> > > - Michael Pfeiffer
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com
> > > http://www.deja.com/
> >