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Subject: Re: Train hits parade float in Midland TX carrying veterans - anyone got  video of this?
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<dennisga...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4d88cef6-52ce-4e45-a9a5-eb95c1598b8a@googlegroups.com...
> On Friday, November 16, 2012 9:15:39 AM UTC-5, Casey Jones wrote:
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233746/Midland-Texas-4-dead-17-injured-train-hits-parade-float-carrying-wounded-veterans.html
>
> That story is so f*cked up you can't believe a word it says.
>
> If that train was moving at 60MPH, there is NOTHING the train crew could 
> have done. It takes over a mile to stop a train at 60MPH.
>
> If the train was moving at 60MPH, that trailer would be a mile down the 
> road, and twisted up like a pretzel. The death toll would be much higher, 
> as in, everybody including the truck driver. From the pictures, looks like 
> some chairs were knocked over.
>
> I bet it was moving at more like 6MPH, not 60.
>
> If the lights and gates were working, what the hell was the truck doing 
> crossing the tracks?

The story I read said the first truck crossed and was stopped not leaving 
enough room for the second truck.  Why he was stopped was not stated.  In a 
parade, there are often sirens and horns blowing so the crossing gate bells 
would not be heard.