Posted on Feb 16, 2022
SEE IT: Brightline Train Collision In Lake Worth, Fourth Crash Since The Weekend
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Please don't ask me to feel sorry for someone who goes around a RR Crossing gate arm when it is down.
SEE IT: Brightline Train Collision In Lake Worth, Fourth Crash Since The Weekend
Posted from miami.cbslocal.com
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
"What happened in the Brightline crash in Lake Worth Beach?
The remains of a car that cut around a gate arm and was hit by a Brightline train Wednesday morning. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue The sheriff’s report on the crash said Paez waited behind other cars for a freight train going north on the west railroad tracks at Washington Avenue and Dixie Highway in Lake Worth Beach. The safety gates were down."
"What happened in the Brightline crash in Lake Worth Beach?
The remains of a car that cut around a gate arm and was hit by a Brightline train Wednesday morning. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue The sheriff’s report on the crash said Paez waited behind other cars for a freight train going north on the west railroad tracks at Washington Avenue and Dixie Highway in Lake Worth Beach. The safety gates were down."
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SPC Erich Guenther
Video posted above from locomotive cab. Driver was an idiot and attempting to skip around the line of cars waiting at the gate thinking the downed gates were from the departing freight train. Highly illegal manuever and he did not see the approaching passenger train because the frieght train blocked his view. It was at a silent crossing because as you notice the passenger train does not blow his horn until he sees the car. Normally they blow as they approach the crossing but I suspect the local community banned the sounding of train horns unless in an emergency.....which happens in some of the well to do areas of the country.
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So what made this even worse is it happened at a crossing where the trains were asked to run silent and not blow their horns as they approached the crossings (they can only use their horns in an emergency) as you can see in the video attached the engineer does not blow the horn until he sees the car is going to cross. The train goes into emergency braking as soon as he hits the car....look at how long to stop. Also from the drivers perspective he saw the freight clear the crossing and saw the gates still down and decided a stupid manuever to cut line around the stopped cars......the approaching passenger train was blocked from his view by the departing freight train.....then wham.......meet Charles Darwin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbvceeg-og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbvceeg-og
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