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Re: Photo of grade-crossing accident

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From: P88037
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:53
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Hi!

About this: there was an accident few years ago: a bus/train collision.
Dont remember numbers, but something like 20 ppl killed (is was a school
bus :(, poor children were going to there "Trip Of The Year") and huge
mercedes but totally destroyed.

so you can imagine amount of energy, if that bus was 20ton (20,000 kg)
and trains here are small (a locomotive and 3-4 carts) and going slow

i also can recall an accident in my place in Russia, when mid-size truck
was thrown 150 meters, and completely destroyed. the rear wheels (a pair
of them) destroyed a taxi. The train was a express (moscow-bucharest),i
think, and was going 60-70 mph!!! Poor truck driver was cut to small
pieces, and train drivers wasvery badly injured.
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Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:53:24 IST
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Message-ID: <92240.145324P88037@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,rec.autos,rec.railroad
Subject: Re: Photo of grade-crossing accident
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 <1992Aug25.143939.3737@desire.wright.edu>
 <1992Aug26.013120.6377@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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