Two Women Lay Between Rails to Avoid Oncoming Train INDIANA (WGGB) — A narrow escape on elevated train tracks in Indiana was caught on camera. It was released as a warning by the railroad to keep people off of the tracks. The 14,000 coal train was traveling at 30 miles per hour on the narrow tracks over a river. That’s when the engineer noticed two women along the tracks. They began running for their lives, as the train barreled down on them. As they tried to escape, one woman fell onto the tracks between the rails. The second woman tried to help her, but had to decide between leaping dozens of feet off of the tracks or laying down in between the rails. Despite applying the emergency break, the train roared over the two women, hiding in between the rails. Authorities say there were just 10 inches between the bottom of the tracks and the bottom of that train. Amazingly, both women escaped uninjured. “The engineer assumed that he was calling in to let us know that he had killed two people,” said Eric Powell, from the Indiana Rail Road, “thankfully they crawled out from underneath the train. Now, authorities are trying to discourage trespassers from coming onto train tracks or other dangerous locations. “It can take a train, a freight train, over a mile to stop,” said railroad safety advocate Joyce Rose. So far in 2014, 167 railroad trespassers have been killed. That number was just 128 in all of 2013. Both women will face prosecution for criminal trespassing as a result of the incident.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:25:57 +0000