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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Florida's Brightline high-speed passenger trains - with the worst fatality rate in nation - kill one person and seriously injure another in separate accidents less than 12 hours apart
2022-02-18
  • Tuesday night's death was the ninth involving Florida's privately owned passenger railroad since it resumed operations in November

  • It's the 57th since Brightline began test runs in 2017, giving it the worst per-mile fatality rate in the nation

  • Investigators found none of the deaths were the railroad's fault, determining that many were suicides or drivers or pedestrians trying to beat the trains

  • The trains travel up to 79mph through densely populated urban and suburban areas along about 70 miles of track between Miami and West Palm Beach
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  Gosh, no gene pool comments
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030   2022-02-18 19:52  

#13  $Millions to be made with a Top-of-the-Forehead cam linking to the PED, so when the person enters into The Land of Nod, there is live camera on their screen showing what is up ahead.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-18 18:12  

#12  Think that's a funny sign?
That's painted on Clematis Blvd in West Palm Beach, FL.
I think 3 have been burst into red mist and parts while looking down checking their Facebook and crossing the tracks.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-18 17:50  

#11  The issue might be that Brightline is a (gasp) PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, thus denying government entities from their progressive Light-Rail dreams.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-02-18 11:36  

#10  /\ Just kept dancing until the music stopped.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-18 08:57  

#9  I think death penalty for wearing earbuds while walking a rail line is totally reasonable.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-18 08:55  

#8  Amtrak Coaster runs along North SD County and regularly collects Suicides and The Stoopid on tracks
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-18 08:52  

#7  Not sure it's self-sustaining at this point, but Central Florida Rail does at least serve locations people want to travel from/to.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-18 08:49  

#6  Brightline is not the problem; stupid and/or entitled people are.
If you review the many well-shot videos by Roaming Railfan you can see how Brightline is taking train/others separation seriously.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2022-02-18 08:47  

#5  ... or a school bus
Posted by: Bobby   2022-02-18 07:55  

#4  The guys driving the fuel tankers know how to behave at a rail crossing. Except maybe some of the recently imported low wage ones that don't speak or read much English.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-18 07:51  

#3  ...as long as the one in front of you is not a fuel tanker.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-18 07:47  

#2  Two major freight rail crossing near where I live. I routinely see people stopped on the tracks waiting for a traffic light change. I have had people blow their horn at me for not pulling into the crossing while traffic was stopped. I always invite them to go around me. I'm quite willing to watch the show.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-17 09:36  

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Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-17 09:31  

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