Fatal Stupidity

[billroper]

When I headed out for a late lunch this afternoon, I discovered that Mount Prospect Road was closed at Golf Road. Later, I found out why. Someone drove a semi loaded with chunks of broken concrete around the lowered crossing gates at Northwest Highway and into the path of a Metra train.

Thankfully, it looks like only the truck driver was killed.

Idiot.

Comments

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

In any train + motor vehicle accident, the motor vehicle usually looses. And this could have been worse.

But from personal experience (see http://www.ron-oakes.us/?p=1632, and http://www.ron-oakes.us/?p=1635 - plus two more short posts in between), I can tell you that even without getting hurt, being a passenger in a fatal train + ? accident isn't that much fun.