(Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel, March 20, 2012)
FOR LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s every train engineer’s nightmare: A figure lurches onto the track in front of a charging, 200-ton locomotive. The outcome is usually fatal, and while the number of pedestrians killed by trains is slightly declining nationally, experts say it still occurs all too often.
Friday, it happened twice on the same train, in two different cities at opposite ends of the state. Two men were killed instantly, and police in two jurisdictions are investigating how they came to be on the tracks.
“It’s probably one of the worst things that can happen to an engineer,” said John Bentley, spokesman for the Cleveland-based Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “It’s very devastating emotionally.”
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