Monday, June 1, 2015

1 MALE DRIVER KILLED WHEN AMTRAK TRAIN HITS HIS CAR NEAR ROCHESTER, NY. THE DRIVER AVOIDED THE GATES AND IGNORED THE FLASHING LIGHTS BECAUSE HE WAS LATE FOR WORK








JUNE 1, 2015

CHILI, NEW YORK

An Amtrak train with passengers aboard smashed into a car that bypassed the gates at a railroad crossing outside Rochester, N.Y., killing the driver, according to police.

The young man, described as in his 20s, reportedly avoided the gates and ignored the flashing lights just before 6 a.m. at a crossing at King Road in Chili, 11 miles west of Rochester, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

Deputies told the newspaper that the man, working for the town of Chili, apparently was late to work, bypassed a car in front of him and skirted the gates to get there faster. The train barreled into the car at 76 miles per hour, leaving the driver dead.

The crossing gates were working with the arms down and cautionary lights activated, deputies said.

The train hit the back side of the car, spun it around with the car doing at least one somersault, Sgt. Robert Murphy said. The crash took out the back seats of the car and a part of the undercarriage as well as one of the gates and crossing signal, he said.

The passenger train, No. 280, was running the Empire Service route from Niagara Falls to Penn Station with 21 passengers and four crew members aboard. None were reported injured, an Amtrak spokesman said.

Slow down young people.  You are risking your precious life by playing Russian roulette with trains and other risky activities.  He could have stayed an hour or so later at his work to make up the lost time, if that was the case.  No excuse.  When you get older you will realize that getting involved in risky behavior does not worth it at all.
http://www.nydailynews.com