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...in downtown Oakland crossing the street from their hotel to play at Yoshi's last night.
They were late, the train was slow moving with clear sight lines - hard to understand how this happened.
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I spent 26 years as a train mechanic.
We had a number of employees hit, some even killed, by trains.
When you do NOT pay attention to your surroundings.
Bad things happen.
Steve
...it appears there was a train going slowly in one direction and the barriers were down.
As it passed the two ran under the barriers and were hit by a train going the opposite direction they didn't see.
Very sad.
or in a hurry (late for their gig)?
Many times I've seen folks who are anxious to cross a street with rail lines be ready to move as soon as a train passes (gates or no gates). Somehow it doesn't occur to them there could be ANOTHER train coming from the opposite direction. I suspect that was what happened here.
And Friday the 13th had nothing to do with it. The accident was Thursday evening.
Too bad and I hope they both fully recover and will play again.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
You'd need to WANT to get hit by the train in order to be hit by the train.
Then again, was on an AMTRAK train once when it hit
and killed a guy in a stalled truck near San Leandro.
Took eight hours to get from there to San Jose.
Guess the TOP guys were lucky they weren't in a truck.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
...freight trains go pretty slow along there.
The Amtrak train that hit them was going 25mph.
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"A group of four people tried to cross the tracks while the warning guard arms were still down..."
Hmmm. I wonder what this means???
I remember driving lessons when I was 15 (and not much else) that said that most train accidents occur when there are two trains at the same time different directions. The drivers (or walkers) are concentrating on the one train and don't think to look the other way. And the train(s) are so loud, it doesn't give the other train away.
wait for the guard arms to rise to signal "all clear".
Or at least, look both directions. :)
n/t
Yup, while I don't wish harm on anyone crossing tracks, the arms are there for a good reason.
Odd indeed? I am always flabbergasted by "human error"?
Our good buddy Mic Gillette died just about a year ago.
ToP was scheduled to play in San Diego next week and I hoped to catch them.
Now I just hope they both recover.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
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