Re: [NSW] Five (in a car) thought dead after train crash

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Graeme"
| alpout@optusnet.com.au says...
| > Patrick <
| > > Also on ABC: "Rail accident sparks call for safety review"
| > >
| > > "The call from the Highway Safety Action Group follows yesterday's
| > > collision between an XPT train and a car near Albury, in which five
| > > people were killed."
| > >
| > > "'I think that if the non-operational lines around the country were

| Amazing what the average non rail fan can sum up about a railway line in
| the average period of 17 seconds from when that train hits the approach
| to when it arrives at the crossing proper.
| Not having boom gates on a line that has 160kmh traffic is utter
| stupidity.Its unsafe for the passengers of the train and certainly
| detrimental to road vehicles.

Trying to race a 100MPH train across a xing with lights and signs is utter
stupidity.