4 Year Old Girl Killed By Go Train

[james t kirk]

are you kidding me have you been beside a GO train they are so noisy and the vibration they make can be felt many hards away.
It should have scared anyone away . Anyone thats on the tracks is going to hear it...I just think the child was too young to understand so sad

No I'm completely serious.

You are incorrect in your belief that you can hear a Go train, or even a freight train when you are on the tracks. A huge myth.

The sound from a train eminates laterally from the train, and upwards from the locomotive.

When you are on the tracks, you are in line with the train. There is no sound coming at you. And GO Trains are extremely quiet.

I guess you didn't see the recent video of the three kids who were on the Metrolinx track that runs to Kitchener recently at the bridge over the Humber River. They didn't hear the train either till the last second because they are on track in line with the train. They almost were killed. One kid almost ran right into the train.

 

[james t kirk]

OMG, stupid people are brain dead, cannot process cannot hear. Are they also blind ? Is it difficult to look on both sides of a track to see if a train is coming ?
God help all of us from these deaf and blind a**holes driving on the highways. How about giving them handicap tags to hang around their necks.

You will never hear a train if you're on track. You need to see him to realize you are in danger. And if the track is in a curve, you won't see him till its too late.

Never walk on the tracks.

 

[james t kirk]

The family will hire a lawyer and sue whoever is responsible to maintain the fence along the tracks. They will argue there shouldn't have been a hole in the fence. The family will walk away with a nice payout, even though they're 100% responsible for the death of their child. Pathetic!

This.

 

[Ryan4life]

No I'm completely serious.

You are incorrect in your belief that you can hear a Go train, or even a freight train when you are on the tracks. A huge myth.

The sound from a train eminates laterally from the train, and upwards from the locomotive.

When you are on the tracks, you are in line with the train. There is no sound coming at you. And GO Trains are extremely quiet.

I guess you didn't see the recent video of the three kids who were on the Metrolinx track that runs to Kitchener recently at the bridge over the Humber River. They didn't hear the train either till the last second because they are on track in line with the train. They almost were killed. One kid almost ran right into the train.

Completely disagree...grew up near go train/via rail line and would walk home from school almost everyday on the tracks with friends as it was a shortcut, we also spent most our free time in a wooded area as kids that the train tracks ran through and would use it as shortcut to go from one area of the woods to another. The trains make plenty of noise and the tracks start to vibrate well before the train even appears in sight. Your video is anecdotal showing some gen z kids who grew up in the ''playdate' and helicopter parents era, You can also find plenty of videos of people walking into traffic while they stare at there phone, doesn't mean the cars don't make noise.

 

[foru2discover]

Tracks are for trains use your brains stay off.
Im sure we will be seeing more train education and warnings now

 

[foru2discover]

Completely disagree...grew up near go train/via rail line and would walk home from school almost everyday on the tracks with friends as it was a shortcut, we also spent most our free time in a wooded area as kids that the train tracks ran through and would use it as shortcut to go from one area of the woods to another. The trains make plenty of noise and the tracks start to vibrate well before the train even appears in sight. Your video is anecdotal showing some gen z kids who grew up in the ''playdate' and helicopter parents era, You can also find plenty of videos of people walking into traffic while they stare at there phone, doesn't mean the cars don't make noise.

totally agree

 

[james t kirk]

Completely disagree...grew up near go train/via rail line and would walk home from school almost everyday on the tracks with friends as it was a shortcut, we also spent most our free time in a wooded area as kids that the train tracks ran through and would use it as shortcut to go from one area of the woods to another. The trains make plenty of noise and the tracks start to vibrate well before the train even appears in sight. Your video is anecdotal showing some gen z kids who grew up in the ''playdate' and helicopter parents era, You can also find plenty of videos of people walking into traffic while they stare at there phone, doesn't mean the cars don't make noise.

Was your house built in the middle of the tracks?

You don't know what you're talking about.

When you're on the tracks, you won't hear the trains coming at you. Not till the train is about 2 seconds away. Same with vibrations.

You think you know what you're talking about, but you don't. You're confusing being lateral with the track to being on the track. Two very different things.

 

[james t kirk]

totally agree

You're wrong too.

 

[Ryan4life]

Was your house built in the middle of the tracks?

You don't know what you're talking about.

When you're on the tracks, you won't hear the trains coming at you. Not till the train is about 2 seconds away. Same with vibrations.

You think you know what you're talking about, but you don't. You're confusing being lateral with the track to being on the track. Two very different things.

I explain how I basically spent my entire childhood being on the tracks, you respond with "You don't know what you're talking about". Ok buddy.

 

[james t kirk]

I explain how I basically spent my entire childhood being on the tracks, you respond with "You don't know what you're talking about". Ok buddy.

Cause you dont

You keep thinking because you can hear a train in the distance, at a location adjacent to the track, that you can hear a train coming down the track if you are on the track.

It's not the same thing from a physics point of view.

I said previously that the sound of a train eminates laterally from the train. (lateral means sideways or on a diagonal FYI). In addition, sound from the locomotive eminates straight up into the sky from the exhaust manifolds.

When you're on the tracks, you are in line with the train and there is nothing to hear because there is no sound coming at you. You will have 2 seconds before you are hit and this has been shown through scientific experiments.

How many years ago were you a kid? They don't use steam engines any more buddy.

 

[james t kirk]

To all those people who think you can hear a train on the tracks and you will have time to react and get out the way, you will not. With a train moving at 45 miles per hour, you will have 2 seconds to process what is going on and form a plan to get out of the way. That's not enough time.

Here, watch this as it seems some people don't get it:

Rossen Reports update: See how long it can take to hear a train coming

A popular trend in photography is taking pictures and video on train tracks — but it could have deadly consequences. TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen shows just how easy it is to get caught in a dangerous situation.

www.today.com

Never walk on the tracks.

I know what I'm talking about.

 

[Darts]

Wonder if a cow catcher would have helped?

"A cow catcher is the triangular front end of a locomotive. Its intended to deflect cattle that might be on the train tracks while not actually running them over."

 

[superstar_88]

Did Dart just equate a 4 year old child to a cow

 

[spankingman]

Wishful thinking on a pay out. Good luck dealing with corporate lawyers.
This family has to deal with the loss of a child.

You can be SURE some sleazy Lawyer or Lawyers are lining up to take their case.

 

[Travelman123]

It is DARWIN. Survival of the fittest.

Or The Stupid do not make it.
We should simply everything reasonable to protest people
I have done many extremely dangerous things in my life.
However, I knew what I was doing.
.
For most people the most dangerous part of their day is the drive to work

I had a part time job which involved explosives.
The most dangerous part of the job was getting to the work site.

T123

 

[Darts]

It is DARWIN. Survival of the fittest.

Or The Stupid do not make it.
We should simply everything reasonable to protest people
I have done many extremely dangerous things in my life.
However, I knew what I was doing.
.
For most people the most dangerous part of their day is the drive to work

I had a part time job which involved explosives.
The most dangerous part of the job was getting to the work site.

T123

It pains me to say this but most city folks lack survival skills.

I grew up in rural Quebec. The people who get hit by trains, drown, crash through the ice in their snowmobiles, flip over in their ATV's and/or get attacked by animals were city folks.

 

[NotADcotor]

I live next to a railroad crossing. Perfectly safe crossing the tracks, I've done it [it's part of the street crossing]. The only way you could get run over is if you are trying to kill yourself or is you are extremely stupid. Sure 4 year olds are not the sharpest tools in the shed but still, and that kid had family around. For fucks sake

That family should be sued for any emotional damage done to the train operator and for clean up costs and should be forced to move to Cornhole Ontario where they can live among their derpy kind.

 

[Darts]

I live next to a railroad crossing. Perfectly safe crossing the tracks, I've done it [it's part of the street crossing].

Probably safer than those darn TTC streetcar tracks where streetcars run both ways.

 

[Darts]

CP24 posted a pic of the little girl and interviewed the father at the family's request.

 

[unassuming]

According to the father, 4 year old was out getting ice cream with her sisters when she chased a butterfly onto the tracks.