another person has been killed by a train. What the hell is going on now! We should have zero deaths by peds getting hit by trains because people shouldn't be so daft to walk on train tracks, especially with ipods blasting your ears etc.
I surely hope that the kiwi rail is not held accountable because its plain and simple the fault of the person who is unfortunately now dead, along with 5 others in auckland alone this year. Its a bit like huffing, so many people die from it but nobody seems to learn
pico42,
Oct 17, 10:24pm
They do walk amongst us. Although not for long.
Think of it as a form of natural selection.
solarboy,
Oct 17, 10:50pm
Wellington pedestrians are regularly walking out in front of buses too, mainly where the route was changed from a mall .Not that hard to see a big red thing but there they go !
flitt,
Oct 17, 11:41pm
It's not always an accident, which might explain a portion of the stats.
thewomble1,
Oct 18, 12:29am
Most of them are yellow
icemans1,
Oct 18, 12:35am
natural selection - survival is for the intelligent.
icemans1,
Oct 18, 12:36am
i feel sorry for the train driver
trader_84,
Oct 18, 4:57am
Most of them are this. I read something somewhere which put this and walking in front of trucks on the open highway as ways people select to off themselves. No mention of the trauma experienced by the truckie/train driver . or of the knowing nod by plod when the driver/operator says that he thought he saw the victim smile just before he went through them.
the-lada-dude,
Oct 18, 5:18am
what a strange train of thought MM, frankly i don't give a toss who or what gets killed on a railway, if it's human, then that's one less moron or wacko that our road going family will have the pleasure of meeting head on ! you want to check the death stats the indian railways have
splinter67,
Oct 18, 6:05am
Happened to me in a kenworth The guy only got minor injures in the crash because I swerved to avoid him when I got to the car he was saying F@#$k I missed he strangely enough got some facial injuries this was one of my main reasons for giving up truck driving
pauldw,
Oct 18, 6:20am
At least most of the drivers choose to look away, there are many others involved afterwards that don't have that option.
bjmh,
Oct 18, 6:58am
natural selection ! i had a kid walk straight off the curb in front of my ute.he had ear phones on and didn't look .
chebry,
Oct 18, 7:50am
Theres the problem right there Nobody looks for yellow buses
purple666,
Oct 18, 7:50am
The pedestrian is always in the wrong, that is unless the car or train for that matter mounts the footpath. Especially when they launch themselves onto crossings expecting cars or trains to stop for them. I am a motorcyclist and believe me when I say that as you lay in your hospital bed nursing broken body parts the fact of who was legally in the right does nothing to reduce the pain.
trogedon,
Oct 18, 7:59am
On a lighter note; I cycled up a dead end road that has no footpaths the other week. There were two 60 something year old women walking down it. I turned around and came back down (O??
rsr72,
Oct 18, 11:43am
#15- Eventually it all catches up with cyclists.
morrisman1,
Oct 18, 4:24pm
I always walk on roads on the wrong side, well perhaps its the right side. My reason! I can see the traffic coming towards me. If you walk in the same lane as the traffic going the same direction as you then they are coming from your behind. Walk on the other side and you see them all coming = safer by a million times.
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