The Philly train crash

Trollheart · 05-14-2015, 12:27 PM

Just hoping nobody here had any relatives/friends involved. If so, best wishes for their recovery. Thoughts and prayers to all the victims. A terrible tragedy.

**Janszoon** · 05-14-2015, 01:55 PM

It's pretty crazy. My wife and I have been on that train several times.

Plankton · 05-14-2015, 02:05 PM

Dude was going 106mph in a 50mph zone. Not cool. He lawyered up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us...phia.html?_r=0

Chula Vista · 05-14-2015, 03:12 PM

Both of my sisters are deadly afraid of flying so much so that when they came out here to visit (Boston to San Diego) they took a train.

Wonder how they feel about this.

Ya, dude's lawyer is saying the driver "doesn't remember" what happened. His ass is gonna get nailed when all is said and done.

Trollheart · 05-14-2015, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Both of my sisters are deadly afraid of flying so much so that when they came out here to visit (Boston to San Diego) they took a train.

Wonder how they feel about this.

Ya, dude's lawyer is saying the driver "doesn't remember" what happened. His ass is gonna get nailed when all is said and done.

Jesus Chula! For half a second I read "Both of my sisters are dead"!!!!!!
Thank God that's not the case!

Chula Vista · 05-14-2015, 06:16 PM

Awwww, bad choice of word on my part considering what you asked in the OP.

Sorry mang!

**Janszoon** · 05-14-2015, 03:18 PM

The crazy thing is apparently there was a train wreck in this same area in the 40s that killed 79 people.

FRED HALE SR. · 05-14-2015, 03:42 PM

Looking at the remains of the wreckage, its amazing only 7 people lost their lives. That was a rather hideous looking remains of a train. There is no excuse for the speed he was travelling having driven that route before. Hes going away for sure.

fiddler · 05-15-2015, 01:50 AM

It's awful. I don't understand what business he thought he had going that fast in that area.

Chula Vista · 05-15-2015, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by fiddler

It's awful. I don't understand what business he thought he had going that fast in that area.

Maybe he dozed off? According to reports the train was accelerating right before the accident. If he'd been fully aware you'd figure he'd have been decelerating knowing he was coming up on that curve.

05-14-2015, 12:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
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05-14-2015, 01:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	It's pretty crazy. My wife and I have been on that train several times. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

05-14-2015, 02:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	Dude was going 106mph in a 50mph zone. Not cool. He lawyered up. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/us...phia.html?_r=0 __________________ See location...

05-14-2015, 03:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Both of my sisters are deadly afraid of flying so much so that when they came out here to visit (Boston to San Diego) they took a train. Wonder how they feel about this. Ya, dude's lawyer is saying the driver "doesn't remember" what happened. His ass is gonna get nailed when all is said and done. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” Last edited by Chula Vista; 05-14-2015 at 03:21 PM.

05-14-2015, 06:16 PM	#6 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Awwww, bad choice of word on my part considering what you asked in the OP. Sorry mang! __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-14-2015, 03:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	The crazy thing is apparently there was a train wreck in this same area in the 40s that killed 79 people. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

05-14-2015, 03:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
FRED HALE SR. Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: So-Cal Posts: 3,752	Looking at the remains of the wreckage, its amazing only 7 people lost their lives. That was a rather hideous looking remains of a train. There is no excuse for the speed he was travelling having driven that route before. Hes going away for sure. __________________ " I slashed and burned thru my 15 minutes of fame."

05-15-2015, 01:50 AM	#9 (permalink)
fiddler Music Addict Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 242	It's awful. I don't understand what business he thought he had going that fast in that area.