Why there is no blood shed in a train accident?

Question

Why there is no blood shed in a train accident?

Answer 1

Why would this be?  What makes you think there is no blood shed.?

Answer 2

People who are suffering from traumatic injuries do tend to bleed.  That's just the way things are.  

The reason you don't see as much blood in a train accident as you do in a car accident is that the TV video cameras can't get as close to the accident scene to photograph all the blood and gore for you to enjoy on the 6PM news.

Get a life.

Answer 3

I assume you mean a passenger train accident.

While there is blood shed in train accidents, it is very little relative to auto and plane accidents. The reason is the mass of the vehicle relative to the speed in the accident. Generally in train accidents, the impact is not as sudden as in auto or plane accidents. There is so much momentum from the mass in the rail cars that they continue in motion after the impact. Also, trains are made up of sections and this tends to allow the total mass of the train to move in different, though connected, directions also avoiding sudden impacts.

This delayed stopping of motion acts to some degree like padding does in slowing the sudden impact. Passengers tend to be tossed around as opposed to slammed around or ejected.

Answer 4

Because their coaches are built tough, with accidents in mind.  

For instance in the USA, passenger coaches have tough standards for frame strength, couplers, and windows... so trains tend to stay upright and connected in accidents.  The cars will zig-zag, but they won't uncouple and start T-bone'ing each other.     And because of the strong frames, they won't crumple up like an accordion.   The windows won't break and people won't fall out of them.  

Also, most accidents are derailments, not ugly train-vs-train collisions.  That's because train control and dispatching is really good, to prevent them!

Answer 5

Taking a different point of view here on the off chance you mean why there is little bleeding sometimes when a dismemberment occurs.

If limbs are severed in a "cross wise" fashion, there is often times little bleeding, initially.  This is because when the trains wheels roll over an arm or leg, they do not "slice" the limb off, but rather it is crushed into two pieces.  When this happens, it "pinches" off the arteries and capillaries so it may take some time for bleeding to occur.

If limbs are severed "with the grain," or lengthwise, then bleeding is usually profuse and usually fatal as well.

Answer 6

What makes you think there isn't?