The kids were asking to see a train video tonight, so I searched YouTube for ‘train’ and came up with a remarkable video of an incident one week ago in Greer, SC. A woman got lost driving at night and got her car stuck on the track. A policeman gets her out seconds before an Amtrak train turns her car into a fireball. Amazingly, no one was seriously hurt.
Watch the video filmed from the patrol car here.
Aside from wondering why she turned onto the tracks the way she did… wow! If the policeman hadn’t coaxed her out of the car, she would have just sat there. Wow…
That was on the news about a week ago. Incredible video! Apparently she was lost and thought she was turning onto a side street to call and get directions. Instead she turned onto the tracks!
I wonder how she’s going to explain this one to her insurance company…
Here’s a Google Maps image of the crossing.