Each year about two or three people here bite it from the light rail. As many safety measures have been place as the transit folks can think of but still people try to override them, overconfident that they can beat it. I think suicide was the reason only once. The rest just stupidity.
I've only been in one crash (no rail tracks) in which ambulances took the drivers away from the scene. Oddly it was in the vehicles least likely to cause harm, an F-10 pickup and an Explorer, both of which had minimal damage. My vehicle, an Escort, got tossed up into the air, flung over a small flat-bed trailer and into the back of the rental truck it was attached to. I walked away with some strained muscles and a totaled car.
As you say, it wasn't my time apparently. Accidents are so crazy because sometimes the outcomes make no sense.
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Date: 2008-09-17 07:19 am (UTC)I've only been in one crash (no rail tracks) in which ambulances took the drivers away from the scene. Oddly it was in the vehicles least likely to cause harm, an F-10 pickup and an Explorer, both of which had minimal damage. My vehicle, an Escort, got tossed up into the air, flung over a small flat-bed trailer and into the back of the rental truck it was attached to. I walked away with some strained muscles and a totaled car.
As you say, it wasn't my time apparently. Accidents are so crazy because sometimes the outcomes make no sense.