It's Not The Train, It's the Locomotive That Kills You

Have you ever played baseball swung the bat and squarely hit the ball?  One second the ball is coming towards you and then whack!  Now its flying off in another direction. One night, I saw a train do that to a car from about ten feet away on November 3, 2009.  The car was stationary with it's back end hanging over the tracks when wham! The locomotive hit it and the car went flying on impact. I had never before seen a car sized object fly off right in front of me; after being hit by a building sized object. The glass and metal pieces of the car went flying everywhere just like the pieces from a popped air balloon.  The sound of the impact itself merged into one terrible sound from the train engine, it's bellowing horn,  rolling metal wheels, screeching breaks and the car itself being instantly demolished.  Fortunately, the car was unoccupied when the train hit it. The two would be occupants of the car were two women but they were safely standing right alongside me away from the tracks.  Prior to the wreck I saved their lives by getting them out of their doomed car seconds before the train hit their car. Since then I still drive cross those same train tracks right where this happened and I remember that night.

There was a local newspaper article printed about the incident titled: "Local Attorney Saves two women from major train accident." You can check out the article by clicking on the above 'Local Attorney' link or view image below.

Fort Bend Star Wednesday, November 11, 2009