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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Sep 13 15:19:47 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Sat Sep 13 15:11:00 2008. No train has seat belts. Nor do buses.Also, it's questionable how seatbelts would help in the case of cars turning on their sides (maybe Metrolink should have gone with single-level cars to help prevent cars tipping over, as well—you have 16-foot-tall, 10' 6"-wide cars running on a track that's 4' 8½" wide, after all.) Or maybe there shoulda been enough signaling on the road to insure that the crash didn't happen in the first place. They don't send out flaggers to protect the rear of a stopped train anymore, like they used to in the old days. |
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