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    From The Associated Press 25 February 2015:
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    Federal investigators say were trying to determine why a pickup truck driver drove on to tracks and abandoned his truck, leading to a train crash that left three cars derailed and dozens injured in Southern California. "It was not stuck, it was not bottomed out on the track or something like that," National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said at a media briefing late Tuesday at the crash site in Oxnard. Officials had said immediately after the crash that the driver got stuck on the tracks.

    ...The driver, Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez, 54, of Yuma, Arizona, was found 1.6 miles away and 45 minutes later
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    The NTSB say a person or vehicle is struck by a train on average every 3 hours in the US....Wow!

    I watched a show once on the training of Railroad Engineers and the instructor said to the class; when you hit someone, not if, but assuredly you will strike and kill someone during your career.
    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

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