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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stephen W: [QB] I find this extract from the LA Times extremely disconcerting: "Amtrak has had 36 accidents at grade crossings from January through March of this year, resulting in 11 deaths, according to the Federal Railroad Administration's safety office. In the five-year period ending in 2010, the passenger train service was involved in crashes that took the lives of 309 people, an average of 62 per year. Amtrak's media relations officials did not return calls Saturday for comment." That doesn't exactly make happy reading for anyone contemplating a first trip by rail in the US. According to a report in the Reno Gazette Journal the truck driver was a man in his mid-forties working for John Davies Trucking of Battle Mountain. Incidentally, I find it strange, taking a look at a selection of Sunday newspapers throughout various States, that I could find few, if any, reports of this dreadful accident. Does this reflect a general lack of interest in an event that happens outwith a newspaper's State or is it that, because of the statistics mentioned above, it is viewed as almost commonplace? If either case is true that I find it sad. My condolences to all concerned. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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