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

["Alex Pout" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that crossing has some sort of bumps in the road
on the approach and departure.  I know that the Olympic Way crossing north of
Albury has them (is that the crossing here?? My geography around that area
isn't all that strong.) as well as running parallel to the rail line on both
sides of the crossing.

Methinks I might nominate them for a Darwin Award.


Kevin Sewell <kevinsewell@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> How about a bit of lateral thinking here. It seems to me that most of you
> are suggesting the main reasons for these accidents are either excess speed,
> or inattentiveness. For the cost of a truck load of bitumen what about
> putting an 80kph speed hump 200m out from the crossing, a 40kph 100m from
> the crossing and a couple of dead slow ones at the crossing. You'd have to
> deliberately try to get hit by a train to ignore these. Ever hit a speed
> hump you hadn't noticed in a suburban street or shopping centre car park?
> Sure brings you back to the job at hand!! And if you'd ignore speed humps,
> you'd ignore gates or lights (see note below).
> If the object of the exercise is to get people to slow to a crawl and look
> when they get to a crossing this should work.
> The other factor - the idiot factor - you're never going to solve.
>
> Graeme <grimegrime@hotmailremove.com> wrote in message
> MPG.14e0c747721abd33989681@news.iprimus.com.au">news:MPG.14e0c747721abd33989681@news.iprimus.com.au...
> > In article <3a75ffb8$0$16378$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
> > alpout@optusnet.com.au says...
> > >
> > > Patrick <patrick@trafficgiant.net> wrote in message
> > > 950hp9$7k5$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:950hp9$7k5$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > > 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.
>
>