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The female officer was the back up officer. She told the first cop her car was behind his but good catch that there was a woman on scene.

First cop completely lost situational awareness and nearly or maybe got someone killed. He ought to be done.

You missed the big burly man too. He's standing next to the car giving directions to the perp. The HER was parked behind HIM and told him so. Maybe you should change your tack to blaming it on a Mexican. You'd be a lot closer.

So it's all still her fault?
The He Man Woman Hating Club, 24 Hour Campfire Chapter is in session.

Colorado.....explains everything.

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I thought you knew better, Dave. An experienced engineer will have been conditioned by daily near misses and false alarms to resist plugging it until absolutely sure it's called for.

Those are both "maybe". Also calling dispatch to stop trains "maybe". Kind of like some guy you don't know handing you a pistol and telling you it's unloaded. Only he's more believable. It's a hard and fast rule - you don't park on railroad tracks for any reason, unless you have gone through the process of obtaining formal authority to occupy the track. Period. End of story.

The railroads have gone to great lengths to educate people about the danger of being on the tracks. You'd have to pretty much actively avoid learning this to not be aware of it at this point. The injured's lawyer should be all over this.

I can tell you some really weird railroad tales!

Like the guy that witnessed a fatal crossing accident.
They finally got the mess cleaned up, released to train to continue.
The next crossing was 1/2 mile away and the train slams into another car, killing the single occupant.
It was the guy who witnessed the previous crossing accident!

The big question is how badly hurt was the woman? I have read several sources and none say anything about her condition.

If she hasn't even a visible mark on her, she still has a case.

Broken ribs, cracked sternum in paper. Surely more. Nothing clear about road rage, menacing, having a pistol.
As for engineer, as said, lots of near misses, if he brsked for every one the train would never go. I doubt the headlight shines over a mile to judge the clearance

Just to clarify for the uninitiated - it ain't absolutely sure it's called for until it's too late. You don't make an emergency stop to avoid a crossing accident. That's the definition of futility. And it's the car driver's or truck driver's responsibility to not be there when the train comes. You put the train into emergency (stop) as soon as you know the collision will happen because it looks better in court. That's usually only seconds before impact. Only a piglet would do otherwise,.

If that happened to me, and I survived, I hope at least one of the cops would come to the hospital, so I could cuss them out at least 15 different ways. Stupid bastards.

Did I see correctly?
After the car was struck by the train, the female officer and one or two others ran towards the wreckage.??
..but the other officers stayed with the suspects vehicle continuing on with their search and ignored the injured victim?
Is that what I saw?

Cop Car Parking Powerpoint

Slide 1 - Don't park on Rail Road Tracks.

Slide 2 - Don't park on Airport Runways.

Slide 3 - Don't park near the third rail.

Slide 4.....

Yes, you saw that, they acted like it was special effects.

Can't put it any better, myself.

Total lack of situational awareness. Only able to function at one thing at a time.

As to the other officers not moving it, some agencies have interlocks on the cars so that only the issued officer can put it in gear once that interlock is engaged and you have to put the key back in the ignition to do it. Yes, that same interlock will allow you to drive the car without the key in the ignition.
Does that vehicle have that system? Who knows. Once the female was in the patrol car and the other vehicle secured, the FIRST thing the cop should have done is get her patrol car off of those tracks. You can search for evidence later. They had all the time in the world to search it.

Ed

I'm not sure if this is smarquez or his wife I am replying to, but the answer is the same. Read back through it and note where I said "they both own it".

I only mention this because one of you went ballistic with a menstrual bleed about feral horses a couple years ago. When I brought it up later one of you admitted the female (is there a male in the relationship?) had access to the account.

The female (is that word ok?) put the subject in the backseat of the car. THAT WAS PARKED ON THE RR TRACKS. She owns it. Not because she's a chick, because she screwed up.

And folks still wonder why CA gets mocked lol