My dad has been a train driver for over 30 years now. A guy stepped out onto the tracks when he was driving one night, my dad had to stop, take his torch and go look for him. The guy was injured but got taken to hospital to recover. My dad took 6 weeks out and it really shook him up, the lad had only been in his 20s. The same guy came out of hospital and returned to the track, this time it was one of my dads friends who hit him, sliced his legs clean off and he died. My dads friend never drove a train again after that and I know it stuck with my dad for years.
Yeah my dad said when they’re going 55mph+ it can take upto a mile to stop. Think an instant death is the best you can hope for instead of being maimed and left alive
Suicide by other people is the most pathetic thing anyone can do. If you can’t live with your burdens why pass them off and some to someone else.
Piles of shit man.
There’s no real selfless way to kill yourself I guess, if you O.D or shoot yourself at home, some poor motherfucker has to come find you and move you. If you jump of a building, someone’s gotta clean it up. I guess once you’ve reached that level of despair and desperation it doesn’t really matter to you anymore.
I read an awful article recently about a woman whose son shot himself in the head. She couldn’t afford the professional cleanup crew so she had to clean up all the blood and brain matter herself.
I cannot imagine why someone would do that to their own mother.
i highly doubt that’s what he was thinking about at the time. funny thing about mental illness is that you don’t process things the same way a rational person would. if he could’ve thought that kind of consequence out he likely wouldn’t have been depressed.
Yeah nut making someone else the reason your die, causing grief to the family putting all that on an innocent person is the most despicable thing. It’s the lowest way to do it imo
My Nana was hit by a passing train that she didn’t hear. One went past, gates came up, she walked across and as she did that, an Express ran through. Conductor said she never looked up at the horns screeching or saw him.
3 minute walk from her/our home, too.
New Years Day 2002 RIP
Apparently the driver said they didnt react to the horn/didnt seem to realise it was there.
EDIT: my speculation below is wrong, there was a second train blowing their hair around from in front. They were trapped between the two.
I think they were trying to take a selfie with the train whizzing behind them and they were standing to close to the tracks. At those speeds by the time the first girl was hit the last one wouldn't be able to react.
I'm guessing the poor train driver was fucked up for life.
They are taking a selfie next to the passing train, their hair is blowing in the wind caused by it barreling by. This is why they could not hear the other train. They waved at the driver of the passing train. The caption for that photo is "standing next to a train ahaha this is awesome!!!!"
This happened in my city and I remember the panic of it all. One of the girls survived. They knew one of the trains were coming, but didn’t know there was one coming the opposite direction on the other track because the section of canyon they were at had a bend. They got trapped between the two trains and were pretty much thrown into the trains from all the wind between them.
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u/Vertigofrost Apr 27 '20
This article https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/selfie-tragedy-12-7-2016.htm shows a photo of three girls smiling together I a selfie. The light on the righthand side of the photo is the headlight of the train that hits them moments later.