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Man vs Train results in a Draw?!

Wow!
Somebody upstairs really likes him!!!

Wouldn't you think he could have felt the vibrations of the train approaching, though?
 
I would think he should have felt the vibrations, but then again the train was at speed and was a passenger train. With the train already at speed, the locomotive isn't working very hard..
 
Very very very lucky, this is becoming too common though. Not only are people risking their hearing by having volume up so loud, but they are clearly risking their lives by but looking at what they are doing!

We had someone killed but a train about 25 miles from me because he didn't look up/hear a train coming and went to walk over a level crossing!
 
I'm sceptical that the train actually hit him full on like the article says. A more likely explanation is that it just missed him and the resulting air flow threw him a few feet away from the train resulting in the minor injuries (well minor for being hit by a train). Still extremely lucky though.
 
The conductor saw it.

"The conductor said it was a straight on hit," said LaPorte County police Maj. John Boyd.
Police were alerted to the incident after someone ran into the streets to flag down a patrolling officer saying they saw a body near the tracks.

Stranger things have happened...
 
Had he been merely blown aside by the wind of the train's passing I doubt he would have suffered fractured vertebrae. That said, it may well have just been a glancing blow so to speak...


...puns not intended.
 
There is no way that he or anyone could survive a 110mph collision. The g forces involved are way too great. Either the train was going much slower, it was a glancing blow (would still have to be very slight @ 110mph) or the train is made from marshmallow fluff!

We'll probably get the definitive answer on next seasons Mythbusters :)
 
A question in my mind is, "Was the train actually doing 110mph?" Is that the normal speed or does it normally go faster? If it's the normal speed then surely it was going slower when it hit him. The articles states that the conductors sounded the horn multiple times and the brakes were applied. I realise a train going at that rate of knots would take a while to slow down, but the question begs to be answered accurately, "Just how fast was it going at the moment of impact?"
 
That will depend on the track it is on. Some of Amtrak's trains in the northeast are class 7 which would be 125 MPH.
 
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