AVON (CBS) – A 75-year-old driver was injured Thursday in a crash involving a Commuter Rail train on the Middleboro/Lakeville line.
The driver’s car was struck at the railroad crossing on East High Street in Avon (Map It).
There's video at the link. Two things are certain: 1. There are lights and a gate at the intersection; and 2. In a car/train collision, the car loses. Big time. I'll be damned if I can figure out what happened - it looks like the car might have tried to beat the train and bounced off the front, or perhaps didn't stop in time and got dragged... Physics, folks, will not be denied - a thousand or so tons of train versus a one, one and a half ton car is going to end badly for the person in the car...
Obey the laws of
That is all.
12 comments:
"thermodynamics" ??
Newton's laws of motion, perhaps?
I'm w/ North . . . . Newtonian MECHANICS -- the same laws of nature which govern things like planetary motion.
- Brad
There, better?
Damn pedants... ;)
Yes, it IS better.
Or did you expect us to have the opposite reaction?
:-D
Just maybe it was a circumstance where the train was invisible?
Kinda like this.... ( luckily the train was going slow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdqsOyLHow
Jay,
Speaking of Newton's laws, the Higgins Museum in Worcester is having a TREBUCHET contest at the end of April. Could you imagine a Northeastd Bloggers Treb? What fun that would be. Rules are on the museum website. Contest is called "Seige The Day" - heh.
And I'm still w/ North on this . . . such an error we could not let slip by. As for the "damned pedant" characterization - the shoe fits.
And while I'm co-opting your post, my required {spit} safety course is tomorrow. App is complete and ready to be filed.
- Brad
Bleh. More stupidity from the Too Fucking Old to be on the road.
I'm just glad the grandkids weren't in the car. -8notch
See the end of "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" for example of train / car interaction.
Maybe he was texting.
The comments sent me off to read about the laws of thermodynamics.
When I was in the navy, it was called the law of gross mass displacement, ie when large ship "carrier" and small ship "destroyer" try to occupy the space, small ship loses.
How do you mount a bayonet on a trebuchet?
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