Woman Collides with Train, Escapes with Broken Nose??
A woman was hit by a light rail train in Minneapolis this morning:
Train service was suspended from 7:44 until about 8:30 a.m. between Lake Street and the Veterans Administration Medical Center station when a woman rushing to catch a northbound train at the VA station stepped into the path of a southbound train and broke her nose. Wearing a heavy coat with the hood up, she crossed the tracks past flashing warning lights and warning bells sounding for the coming train.
In the woman’s defense because this makes her sound dumb: she wouldn’t notice the lights and bells because she thought they were for the northbound train that she saw, right?
Anyway, two questions:
How do you “collide” with a train and escape with only a broken nose?
Why is it that when this happens, they stop train service for 45 minutes and it gets front-page coverage on the local newspaper’s website, but when people get in serious or even fatal car accidents virtually every day, they quickly push them off the road so as not to slow down traffic.
There have been a handful of cases of people getting hit by trains since the light rail open last summer and everytime it makes the news and you hear comments about whether the trains are safe or not. Maybe if they enforced a manditory, hour-long shut-down of a road everytime there was an accident, people would start to ask whether or not automobiles are really that great of a mode of transportation.