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Re: Trains hitting police cars..... Your repressed troll Nancy at work.....
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 06-23-2022 - 13:55
In California, once the crossing protection starts operating, an emergency vehicle (cop, ambulance, fire engine) with flashing lights MAY NOT drive around them. If it does drive around, it does so at its own risk (and might get cited by the CPUC).
>Did they drag the train crew out of the locomotive and arrest them for hitting the cops (I mean taxpayers) vehicle?
The cops occasionally try this stunt, but it subjects them to false arrest suits because the locomotive is on private property and they weren't invited by the owner, the RR, to enter onto its property to make the "arrest".
>If this happened in California there would have been 200 cops standing around, blocking the railroad, Holding all passenger trains on the line hostage, letting their vehicles waste fuel idling for many many hours ($7 a gallon) , raking in the $$$$$ Overtime $$$$$.
5 or 10, maybe, but not 200. If there is a fatality, everyone stays put until the coroner is through doing his thing, which typically takes about 2 hours.
In other states the situation is usually similar.
>Did they drag the train crew out of the locomotive and arrest them for hitting the cops (I mean taxpayers) vehicle?
The cops occasionally try this stunt, but it subjects them to false arrest suits because the locomotive is on private property and they weren't invited by the owner, the RR, to enter onto its property to make the "arrest".
>If this happened in California there would have been 200 cops standing around, blocking the railroad, Holding all passenger trains on the line hostage, letting their vehicles waste fuel idling for many many hours ($7 a gallon) , raking in the $$$$$ Overtime $$$$$.
5 or 10, maybe, but not 200. If there is a fatality, everyone stays put until the coroner is through doing his thing, which typically takes about 2 hours.
In other states the situation is usually similar.
