One dead in Rail Runner crash

[BubbaBob]

Sorry, that was supposed to be attached to Skinwalker's post #58

[saddened]

Mr Road wrote:

This is not newsworthy, when you have so many other stories that could be covered!
1) HUGE Budget deficit and potential taxes looming
2) School at APS officially starts on thursday. Are they ready to improve on their Wonderful graduation rates?
3) Mike Locksley is firing back at that gold-digging, old hag, that is suing UNM Athletics!
4) The State is about to start construction on I-25 North and that's gonna be HUGE!
Tons of real news out there! KKOB, get to work and go find it!

Who cares about Locksley!!!!!Who cares about I-25!! This was a life lost.

[kazzie]

Elyssa wrote:

How sad!
I wonder, how could the train have been going south from the Alvarado Station and the accident occur at Menaul?
Also, did the train strike the truck, or did the truck strike the train?
To answer your question about the train striking the truck or the truck hitting the train from my point of view seeing the truck up front and real close the truck hit the train. I seen the truck it was not a pretty site.

PLEASE LEARN ENGLISH AND LEARN HOW TO SPELL!

[BubbaBob]

Rosalie wrote:

Very sad...he was 82 and probably has children, grand children..great & great grand children.
I'm thinking this poor man must have had a medical problem that caused him to not even attempt to stop. Rest in Peace...and I am certainly glad, no one else was hurt in this accident.

Funny how this 'medical problem' wasn't so serious that he couldn't dial his cell phone. If you're able to push 7 buttons, you're able to hit your brakes or at least switch off your key.

Good thing he didn't get in FRONT of the train. Since the train was running in 'suicide mode'(engine in back, pushing), he probably would have killed a number of people in the front car.

[worried]

I said this would happen because all the cry babies that live down there didn't want the train whistle blowing for a few seconds to warn people they were coming. It was interrupting their precious TV time. Are you people happy now, your quiet zone is partly responsible for causing this death.

[worried]

bib wrote:

At least the train horns didn't disrupt the surounding neighborhood. Thats important.

Exactly, heaven for bid a train should use its horn to warn people. My thoughts if you don't like the sound of a train horn, don't move by railroad tracks.

[Justice]

Cells phones and driving is equivalent to alcohol and driving! He paid for his stupidly!

[CornDaddy]

worried wrote:

I said this would happen because all the cry babies that live down there didn't want the train whistle blowing for a few seconds to warn people they were coming. It was interrupting their precious TV time. Are you people happy now, your quiet zone is partly responsible for causing this death.

That may be true, however this person chose to drive through the lights & the crossing gate and run into the train. Doesn't seem like a horn would have deterred him/her since lights and the gate didn't.

But your point about the no blow zone is well taken.

[evil todd]

Mr Road wrote:

This is not newsworthy, when you have so many other stories that could be covered!
1) HUGE Budget deficit and potential taxes looming
2) School at APS officially starts on thursday. Are they ready to improve on their Wonderful graduation rates?
3) Mike Locksley is firing back at that gold-digging, old hag, that is suing UNM Athletics!
4) The State is about to start construction on I-25 North and that's gonna be HUGE!
Tons of real news out there! KKOB, get to work and go find it!

What makes your stories more important? Is it because that's what you want to read about? I think you need to go to dictionary.com and read the definition of news.

[Sunny Delight]

Shocked wrote:

Doesn't anyone else think it's strange that an 80 year old man is still driving, talking on the cell phone?

I think it is strange you would ask such a foolish thing. In today's world there are 80 year old people that are as sharp as someone who is 40 or younger.

[cloudynm]

86 years old, yakking on a cell phone. Just think, if cell phones were outlawed or never invented, this person may have lived to 101. Technology kills.
Oh, and a crossing with no gates, and no horn blowing because of a quiet area? stop, look, listen.

[nmweatherman]

Lucis wrote:

The crazy thing is, I was on the RailRunner two hours befor this happened.

I hope this isn't "Final Destination" for you...

[swift1]

Try and get your facts straight before you open your yap....

cloudynm wrote:

86 years old, yakking on a cell phone. Just think, if cell phones were outlawed or never invented, this person may have lived to 101. Technology kills.
Oh, and a crossing with no gates, and no horn blowing because of a quiet area? stop, look, listen.

[DontBeDumb]

BarbMoore wrote:

Today's winner of the Darwin Award. CONGRATS!

Hopefully you'll realize that the Darwin Awards only apply to people who either A) don't make it to a reproductive age or B) can't reproduce due to accident.

[Matt]

worried wrote:

I said this would happen because all the cry babies that live down there didn't want the train whistle blowing for a few seconds to warn people they were coming. It was interrupting their precious TV time. Are you people happy now, your quiet zone is partly responsible for causing this death.

I like how you are blaming everyone else for this person driving straight into a train. Flashing lights, train horns blaring, gates, or nothing--I always look both ways twice as I approach and before I cross a railroad crossing. Gates, whistles, and flashing lights are only there for the people who don't care enough about their own safety to look before they cross. I have yet to hear of anyone who got hit by a train seconds after stopping, looking, and listening. Quit blaming everyone for this mans negligence.

[Quiet Zone Lover]

worried wrote:

I said this would happen because all the cry babies that live down there didn't want the train whistle blowing for a few seconds to warn people they were coming. It was interrupting their precious TV time. Are you people happy now, your quiet zone is partly responsible for causing this death.

BTW, quiet zones are only implemented after ADDITIONAL warning and safeguard measures are in place. They can't put in a quiet zone without double-gated crossings and other things. Do some research before you cry to the forum.

[Doris Albuquerque]

One report I heard said that this 82 year old man was using a cell phone. Maybe he was calling 911 to get help for some medical problem. We will never know. So sorry for your loss family and friends of this man.

[No Love to the Obamabots]

Doris Albuquerque wrote:

One report I heard said that this 82 year old man was using a cell phone. Maybe he was calling 911 to get help for some medical problem. We will never know. So sorry for your loss family and friends of this man.

Cell phone use while driving is illegal. If he was having a medical problem, he should have pulled over to a safe place before endangering himself and others just to use a cell phone.

[Minister AJ]

Doris Albuquerque wrote:

I changed my mind...this guy had it coming.

I think you might now have a 1 way ticket to Hell.

[Foam is Key]

I think it is high time for us to start padding the sides of trains. If this train would have had no less than 18 feet of high density polyurethane foam on both sides of it, the precious old man would still be alive. His cute little truck would have been caressed gently as it encountered the lush padding of the Rail Runner Express. This lack of padding is what caused the accident and is clearly the fault of the city of Albuquerque, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney.