NewMexiKen last year: “A high-speed train crossing at grade level is a serious accident waiting to happen. People violate railroad crossing warnings all the time — and this time the train will be approaching at 116 feet a second with hundreds of people on board.”
Yesterday the Rail Runner Express hit a Jeep on the tracks at an ungated crossing, killing both occupants of the car. None of the 64 persons on the train was injured according to reports. The tragedy is compounded, however, because the victims, a middle-aged brother and sister, were together because their mother had died yesterday morning. Other family members in other cars witnessed the collision.
You just can’t have high-speed commuter trains crossing streets at grade.
A very, very sad event. I was freaked out when I saw the Rail Runner roll through (or very, very close to) a brush fire earlier this year.
How sad for this family that was already in mourning.