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In addition to yesterday's Menlo Park Caltrain fatality--expertly reported by SFist Dan--two other people were also struck by moving trains, killing one and sending the other to the hospital. According to the Examiner, "a 60-year-old Richmond man was killed after getting hit by an Amtrak train in Richmond around 8 a.m." Then, at around 6 p.m. at the Livermore station, an Altamont Commuter Express train collided with yet another man.
Oh, and it seems the man at the Livermore station was "tying to get away from the tracks when it clipped his leg, injuring him severely." Jesus. Be careful, people.
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I don't understand how you can get hit by a train by accident.
Maybe none of these were "accidents," but honestly will someone enlighten me on how you accidentally get hit by Amtrak???
3 in one day! WTF.
someone needs to tell CalTrain to stop hosing down the platforms with Astroglide.
dang!
I understand our City's Pedestrian Advocacy group, Walk San Francisco, is having a benefit party on Friday, April 18th .... a good organization to support if you're concerned about pedestrian safety in San Francisco. http://www.walksf.org/s2s
It's called Natural Selection.
Trains are out to get us y'all! Time to write a children's book called, The Little Engine that Could Kill You to teach kids about these predatory machines.
I see people standing in the yellow area of the platforms all the time. Sometimes the engineer yells out his window at them to back away -- one little slip and you're done.
This morning at Diridon Station, the engineer on #312 blasted his horn as he pulled into the crowded station. I wondered what that was about until I read the story about the Livermore man.
I guess they don't hand out the infamous "Safety with Trains" brochures anymore. When I was a kid I remember in school they'd hand out these things, as the train went through Burlingame and they were thinking about the children.
The brochures had a lot of little tales of the "Red Asphalt" variety highlighting the many ways kids could get maimed or killed by trains, or how their tomfoolery could cause a train wreck. Then it had all sorts of deets on how one could avoid being a tale of woe in the next edition. I remember it to this day because it was so graphic, but it also left me with the impression that running around a train is probably not a good idea.
I'm with you Spencer, its pretty obvious where, and only where a train can possibly go...
Greg- I vividly remember an after-school special (albeit in South Africa) about the many, many, many dangers of playing near train tracks. I also remember a particularly gruesome Faces of Death clip featuring a wee German girl, a commuter train and her disembodied head. To this day I stand about 10 feet away from the yellow line at BART.
My father is a locomotive engineer, and he instilled a healthy fearful respect of trains in me. They don't stop on a dime, folks.