Cut-Out-Cock Wrote:
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> J Wrote:
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> > If you want to be a trooper there is probably
> an
> > opening. The helpful phone number on the
> crossing
> > mast could have been used to notify CSX.
> >
> > "Keeter said the tractor-trailer had been
> trying
> > to negotiate the turn for about 15 minutes, and
> a
> > state trooper was there to help."
> >
> > Lots of similarities to a 2000 collision in FL:
> > NTSB
>
> And the 1990's Metrolink accident in Burbank where
> 3 CHP's were escorting a 10,000 lb refining unit
> and it got hooked up on a crossing for 15 minutes
> and not one of the cops called Metrolink to warn
> them even with the 800 number on the crossing
> control box right in front of them, the wreck
> almost killed the engineer and destroyed the
> locomotive
> Not one of those stupid cops got in trouble over
> it!

Stupid Motorists or the Stupid Law Enforcement who is escorting them and suppose to be much smarter than them (unless they were trying to create overtime for their cop, fire and salvage buddies)