Re: [NSW] Truck driver killed instantly by XPT train

["iyb" <iyb@dingoblue.net.au>]

train always wins!!!!
When will these morons learn
NO SYMPATHY
"Glenn J-B" <grjb@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> > A 46-year-old man died instantly when his truck was hit by an XPT train
in
> > south-western New South Wales today.
> >
> > The XPT, en route from Melbourne to Sydney, hit the truck at the Burns
> Road
> > crossing at Bomen, 5km north of Wagga Wagga about 1.30pm AEDT, a police
> > spokesman said.
>
> Funny how the train always hits the vehicle and normally wont say that the
> vehicle drove onto the level crossing with the train approaching.
>
> > The crossing has lights and bells but no boom gate and authorities were
> > investigating how the accident occurred.
>
> And the difference with or without gates is? The train alone sounds an
alert
> (its horn) when approaching level crossings which from memory is multi
toned
> and load, and if you dont manage to hear that then all the lights at the
> front of the train flash madly.
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