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Jolting awareness into rail crossing safety
| 题名： | Jolting awareness into rail crossing safety |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Mischa Wanek-Libman |
| 摘要： | At a previous stage in my career, I was a regular attendee at a freight rail-focused conference where a Class 1 railroad engineering representative would start his annual presentation with a series of truly shocking videos taken from inside the cab of a locomotive during accidents at grade crossings caused by careless vehicle drivers. There were logging trucks, semis, waste hauling vehicles and others - he never ran out of new material. Even though I knew prior to viewing there was no loss of life, the sound of impact, the swooshing of the emergency brakes and the seemingly endless time between impact and when the train stopped remain with me. A similar video was released last month by Brightline showing an incident in Lake Worth Beach, Fla. Viewers of the minute-long video see the moment a freight train exits a crossing on the adjacent track and a small car drives past lowered gates and into the path of the Brightline train. The driver survived. However, as The Miami Herald Editorial Board wrote shortly after the video's release, "If we had any doubt that South Florida has a problem with train accidents, the video erased it." |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Mass Transit |
| 卷： | 48 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 6-6 |
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