• Canadian Man Dodges car crash only to end up on Train Tracks
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[QUOTE] An Alberta couple narrowly avoided a collision with a train after swerving to avoid a crash and getting stuck on railway tracks as a train approached east of Edmonton. Police were called to the scene, on Highway 16 west of Vegreville, at about 5:15 p.m. MT on Friday. Police say a couple travelling from Lloydminster to Edmonton were in a westbound Nissan on Highway 16 when a Chrysler on a secondary highway failed to stop at a stop sign. The driver of the Nissan swerved to sideswiping the Chrysler, sending the Nissan careening into a ditch on the north side of Highway 16 and coming to rest on the railway tracks that run alongside the highway. Several passersby stopped and tried to push the car off the tracks, but were unable to dislodge it. Police contacted CN rail to warn officials about the car. They managed to stop an incoming freight train, which came to a halt less than two kilometres from the Nissan. "Had it not been for the quick reaction by the driver of the Nissan to avoid the other vehicle, a serious collision would have resulted which would have most likely proved fatal," said RCMP Const. Curtis Harsulla. "Drugs and alcohol are not believed to have been a factor, but the vehicle which failed to stop at the intersection may have been traveling too fast to come to a stop at the stop sign." The Nissan had to be pulled off the tracks by a tow truck. Witnesses say the driver of the Chrysler did stop and exchange information with the couple in the Nissan, but left before police arrived. The 46-year-old woman who was driving the Chrysler has been charged with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of a collision. She has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Vegreville on Feb. 7. [/QUOTE] [url]http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=26997972[/url]
Well...he couldn't have just gotten out of the car or what?
Double Trouble.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;27163603]Well...he couldn't have just gotten out of the car or what?[/QUOTE] They may have been in shock, or unconscious.
I bet he wasn't [I]trained[/I] for this situation.
final destination with no time wasted
Whats a driver from Alberta say before he nearly plows into a train? "Hold my beer while I try something!"
This is why you don't do rolling stops.
Such is life in Canada.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;27163603]Well...he couldn't have just gotten out of the car or what?[/QUOTE] From what I'm reading. no one died so yes, they DID just get out of the car. Getting it off the track was the issue, but they got the train to stop anyway and called a tow truck so everything worked out good.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;27164430]From what I'm reading. no one died so yes, they DID just get out of the car. Getting it off the track was the issue, but they got the train to stop anyway and called a tow truck so everything worked out good.[/QUOTE] I think he means that the couple should have gotten out of the car when it got stuck on the tracks instead of trying to get it off from the track.
whoa i live just outside of edmonton
I know it's a train and all.. but they did manage to stop it a full mile away from them. Lucky though.. I just thought this was gonna be a closer narrow miss then this.
[QUOTE=Nixux86;27166601]I think he means that the couple should have gotten out of the car when it got stuck on the tracks instead of trying to get it off from the track.[/QUOTE] That's what they did.
[quote]The 46-year-old woman who was driving the Chrysler has been charged with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of a collision.[/quote] Wait a minute! She isn't the one who went off the road and got stuck on the tracks, how is she the one charged with careless driving? And what collison? No one crashed in to anything.
She didn't stop at a stop sign, which would have made her crash into the other car, which would have been fatal.
I was just coming home from Calgary to Edmonton today on the Highway 2 and seen like 20 cars in the ditch and a few rollovers. The roads weren't even that bad so I don't know what was going on.
that's fucking badass as shit!
Very rarely do you hear of them managing to phone up the railway and having the train successfully stop in time.
[QUOTE=Miskav;27166755]That's what they did.[/QUOTE] Oh okay. I misread it then :v:
Some final destination shit.
It's good that nobody was hurt.
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