[RP TownTalk] Fatality on train tracks last night?

[novella sargusingh]

Hi Sue:

I saw a news segment on the tragic accident and a apparently the young lady had a headset on while walking across the tracks.  She never heard the horn, breaks etc. that the engineer stated was applied while he tried in vain to stop the train.  I do not remember her age but she was a very talented young lady per her father.

Thanks A Million!
 
           Novella 


Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:53:58 -0700
From: wheadle at yahoo.com
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: [RP TownTalk] Fatality on train tracks last night?

Saw a breaking story on the Patch about a teenage girl getting hit and killed on the trains tracks just north of the Queensbury Road crossing last night (just before midnight);  has anyone else heard anything?  This is the first I've seen of this story, there's been NOTHING on any of the local news sites (as of right now).   
 
Doesn't say what the circumstances of this tragedy were, but it's heartbreaking, esp. for this young womans' family and friends.  Please, everybody; stay OFF the tracks unless you''re crossing, in which case you should do so only when it's safe and then cross as quickly as possible.  I see far too many people using the tracks as their own walking/jogging trail, or even letting their small children play on the tracks at the train station.   Too, people are still walking/driving/biking around the barriers when they're lowering, even with the bells and lights going.  Even if a train is slowing down to stop at the station, it still takes up to 1/4 of a mile from when the brake is applied on the train until it comes to a stop.  There is simply no way the engineer can stop that train if he sees someone on the track.  My thoughts and prayers are with the victim, her fmaily and
 friends, AND also with the engineer.  
 
Let's be careful, we don't need any more tragedies like this one. 
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