NY Rail Deathmatch, Round 2
RJ3 beat me to this story by about 2 minutes.
This morning a Long Island Rail Road train commuter train and an empty Amtrak train collided this morning outside of New York's Penn Station, Bloomberg.com reports. Injuries seem minimal (Bloomberg reports 11; Reuters, 30) with no fatalties, as the trains were moving slowly through the tunnels outside Penn Station in NY.
The LIRR train limped into Penn Station, so injuries to the trains weren't life threatening either, it appears. The real question in my mind is why Amtrak routinely has such bad luck with train crashes.
Update: Injury rate is now at 130, reports CNN.
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I've heard that in the US, safety focuses on surviving crashes by making the vehicles stronger, etc., while in Europe, the focus is on avoiding crashes in the first place.
Perhaps that's why we hear of fewer crashes with more fatalities overseas?
It's true. This book is an excellent introduction to how SUVs are sold as safer in a crash, but have a tendency to get into more crashes because they are too bulky and heavy to swerve to avoid crashing in the first place.
