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2024-03-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Are America's railroads hiding their suicide problem? Expert claims MAJORITY of all train fatalities in the country are self-inflicted deaths, with hundreds misclassified every year

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-04 00:48|| || Front Page|| [27 views ] Top

#1 Suicide? Or stupidity? There's probably some overlap.

Posted by Bobby 2024-03-04 08:15|| 2024-03-04 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 How exactly is any railroad supposed to prevent a person from jumping in front of a train along hundreds of thousands of miles of track?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-04 08:19|| 2024-03-04 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Died from train or died with train...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-04 08:19|| 2024-03-04 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Check your life insurance policy before making any final decisions. There could be a 'train exclusion' clause.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-04 08:23|| 2024-03-04 08:23|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-04 08:26|| 2024-03-04 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 When I was driving a taxi for CSX railroad 12 of the 30 people I regularly drove had someone jump in front of their train.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-03-04 08:32|| 2024-03-04 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems like a real unpleasant way to commit suicide.
If you're looking for quick and painless, this ain't it.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-03-04 08:46|| 2024-03-04 08:46|| Front Page Top

#8 WSB TV-2 Atlanta - Man found dead on train tracks in Floyd County, coroner says

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-04 08:54|| 2024-03-04 08:54|| Front Page Top

#9 San Diego County almost all are suicides. Except for the fools walking the tracks wearing earbuds

Posted by Frank G 2024-03-04 09:10|| 2024-03-04 09:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Re: #7. It can be VERY quick, and explosively violent, depending on train speed. I had to take an annual Roadway Worker Protection for both Trolley and BNSF/AMTRAK safety training.
They would stress stories of finding shoes (with feet still in them) 100-300 yards from the collision, the rest a pink smear.

Posted by Frank G 2024-03-04 09:21|| 2024-03-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 How many DUIs are suicides? No one ever questions that and just rack it up to the DUI. It is treated as so common in the culture. Got to get yourself liquored up to do it. Not to mention collateral damage aka other victims of the crash.

Gun grabbers throw in gun suicides in their kill statistics as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-04 10:40|| 2024-03-04 10:40|| Front Page Top

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