How do you get hit by a train?

Question

if your not drinkin or on drugs wernt pushed how do you get hit by a train

Answer 1

Pretty much the same way you get hit by a coconut.

Occasionally people die when a coconut tree sheds a coconut, and it falls on their head.  Obviously, this can only happen if you are under a coconut tree!  If you're not, it can't.

So you can't get hit by a train if you're not near railroad tracks.  The end.  Drinking or drugs, no, people are plenty able to be stupid without those.   Foul play?  No, unless suicide counts.

P.S. Trespassing on RR tracks is criminal trespass, more serious than regular trespass due to the Federal RR laws.

Answer 2

your foot got stuck and you see a train coming

your car stalls on the tracks and your doors are locked shut

you're a damsel in distress tied to the tracks waiting for your lover to come rescue you (but he doesn't)

or you could commit suicide this way.

There are a lot of tragic reasons...

Answer 3

If you have to ask this question !!!! --- PLEASE don't get anywhere near any train tracks.

Thank you

Answer 4

Lots of times its poor judgement or being in the wrong place where a train is comeing.Eather place you loose big.

Answer 5

If a train is coming and you step out of the way unto another track you might not notice because of the noise that their is another train coming from behind you.

If you are walking on a bridge or in a tunnel you may not be able to find someplace to get off the track.

If your car stalls on a track you may try to get it started again and don't.   Sometimes when you are in a car with the radio on you can't hear the train.

And of course it is a favorite way to commit suicide.

Some teenagers think it is a thrill to play chicken with trains.

If the train is coming around a corner you might not notice the train approaching especially if there is traffic noise nearby.

Also people who are driving across tracks underestimate the speed of trains.    Because trains are so big it looks like they are going a lot slower then they really are.

Answer 6

being at the wrong place at that time when the train is coming

Answer 7

All of the above, I think the common denominator is medically known as a cranial/r****m inversion.

Most cars made in the last 20 years have such excellent sound insulation that the horn is pretty much useless, even people with no loud music playing simply dont always hear the train.

Crossing protection is very reliable, it does fail but not nearly as much as the accident ratio on crossings would indicate, it is simply because people arent paying attention.

And the suicide answer is tragically correct in far too many cases, I know from experience.

It is absoultely devastating to a train crew to have to go through, there are far more victims to train/car collisions than the vehicle occupants and their families.

Answer 8

Trains don't go hunting people.  If you are on or near railroad right of way, you're fair game........

But, for the most part, being stUPid is how people are hit.

Answer 9

You'll only do it once.

Answer 10

Some people try to beat a train across the tracks at the last minute (some people are just plain stupid, you don't have to drunk or high to do this), & they don't make it across the tracks before the train arrives.

Other ways include:

*If your vehicle stalls on the tracks & a train is coming, alot of times people can't get their vehicle started again in time, or they don't get out of the vehicle in time.

* If you're walking across the tracks & have no idea a train is coming (especialy if they have headphones on & are listening to loud music)

*Some people walk on railroad tracks instead of a sidewalk or something thinking that trains never come through any more, or something like that.

*If someone wants to comit suicide, often times they'll jump out infront of an oncoming train or park their vehicle on the tracks.

Alot of these things listed above occur because if a vehicle is stalled on the tracks, or a person is in the middle of the tracks, the train can't simple stop in time. Trains these days can be very long & heavy, & even if full braking is applied (including the emergency brake), it can still take a long, heavy freight train up to a mile or more to come to a stop, depending on how fast it was traveling.

The best way to avoid getting hit is to pay attention to the crossing signals, & don't try to beat a train across the tracks even if it seems like you'd make it across in plenty of time- trains can often be coming towards you alot faster than it seems. Also, don't use the railroad tracks as an alternativer to a sidewalk or trail. Alway look both ways before crossing any railroad tracks to ensure that there isn't any trains coming from either direction (kinda like crossing a street), & if your vehicle DOES stall on the tracks, don't try to restart it if there is a train coming, just get out of you vehicle & get off of the tracks, your vehicle will still get hit & damaged, but you won't get hurt, injured or killed. If your vehicle stalls & won't restart on the track, there is usually a phone# to call to report stalled vehicles on the track listed by the crossing somewhere, usually on one of the metal boxes by the crossing.

Answer 11

People who don't actually spend a lot of time around trains are unfamiliar with just how big and fast they are.  Its almost like an illusion or something that tricks the eye.  They see it coming but don't realize that they don't have the time they thought they had before it comes up on them.  Thats how they get hit.

Answer 12

surprisingly many people are hit by trains yearly... and they arent drunk nor high nor stupid.

many train crossings lack or have defective warning signals, thats why.

Answer 13

By standing on the tracks and trying to out run a train going over the tracks.

Answer 14

wearing headphones walking down the tracks.. i dont know that happened to someone where i live...also suicide

Answer 15

What Zack said in his first paragraph happened while I was on a train. In 1993, a guy couldn't hear our train coming for the noise of another train on an adjacent track in downtown Fargo. I was even yelling at him from the front of the locomotive, although I'm sure no one could have heard me over the horn. It was an instinct. My train had slowed down to 20 mph at impact. He was knocked out, and went home from the hospital after 8 hours of observation. I couldn't believe he was alright. I still talk to the guy sometimes when I'm in Fargo. He's a cop now.

Answer 16

Usually by trying to beat the train to the railroad crossing.  A lot of people have this crazy notion that this Giga-ton unit of units is not really moving at any significant rate of speed.  So they try to to beat the Big-ol-slow train and that's when they loose!  Another way to get nailed is at night, at unlighted crossings usually country road crossings that don't have all of the ringing bells and flashing lights.  When you here that train horn blaring four times or any number of times please pay strict attention.  After all he/she has the height and the foresight as to what a person just may try and do.