Can you survive getting hit by a train

We see that probably once a year. The man was drunk and fell onto the tracks. I see him in the office every few months. He has a wife and kids and everything like that. It changed his life. These accidents cause deaths and injure about 2, More than half of all fatal train accidents occur at train crossings that do not have active safety devises or have safety devices that are simply inadequate or, in come cases, have no safety devices to alert unsuspecting motorists.

The lesson here is to drive safe and expect the unexpected at train crossings. On February 25, , a train near the Avondale MARTA station struck two automatic train control technicians who were inspecting a relay box; one was fatally injured and the other suffered serious injuries.

The workers had failed to apply for a safe clearance restriction for the track work. A second accident occurred in when a train struck a bucket lift containing two contract workers at Lenox station. Both workers were fatally injured. MARTA trains have derailed four times in recent years. MARTA attempted to blame the incidents on patrons jumping on the escalator, however, a formal investigation showed that the braking systems and a weak motor were to blame for the incidents.

I was still reeling from her death when within 18 months four of my school friends died — two were killed in car accidents, one took their own life and the fourth died of a brain tumour. I'd always been positive, but now I was constantly low and lethargic. I wasn't sleeping, and my schoolwork was suffering.

I was arguing with my parents and life felt bleak. Before, I'd had a sense of purpose — I wanted to be a veterinary surgeon. Now I felt I'd lost my way. In early January , my parents had grounded me for staying out all night, but I'd sneaked out to visit a friend.

I was on my way home, dreading facing my parents. So I headed to the local park, alongside a set of railway tracks. It was a freezing cold evening and, for some reason, I thought it was a good idea to shelter in one of the empty carriages on the sidings. I wanted to clear my head, escape home for a bit longer. Just then I heard the deep rumble of a train approaching. Before I realised what I was doing, I was scrambling up to the train tracks and lying face down across the steel rails.

I closed my eyes tightly — "There's no way I'll survive this," I thought. Whilst someone might picture death as being decapitated by the train wheels, it is possible for the body to just bounce off the front of the train then fall in between the train wheels, or have just a limb over the tracks. In the section Most lethal methods of suicide , the study quoted an expected average time to death by this method of 17 minutes. As long as consciousness is lost quickly, the death should be relatively painless, but if consciousness is not lost, it could be an agonising method.

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