Disabilities and funerals

Questions for thought:

What impacts on your life would a disability have?

How can you prevent being hurt by a train?

How easy is it to die on a railroad?

How hard is it to bury your best friend?

What are common disabilities as a result of train hopping?

Disabilities and injuries

What happened during the aftermath of an injury? Family life is never the same. Like a fatality, it will never be the same. Then there is also the recovery- both physical and psychological. People coming to terms with being disabled living a new life unable to do things they did before the injury. Keep in mind the problem is not just confined to the United States. It is a worldwide epidemic.

While shown in the Hazards section, this video belongs here. This gentleman was very lucky to be able to walk after being hit by a train. He did spend a lot of time in the hospital and underwent months of physical therapy.

Questions for thought:

What were the injuries to the teen in the Railroad Trespassing video?

What things did he do wrong and why?

What was the outcome?

Did he learn his lesson?

These three videos reflect 9-1-1 calls as a result of train injuries. The full 9-1-1 call is shown with Anna Beninati after a failed train hop. Listen to the reactions of this call. Anna was very lucky that the caller was also an EMT. Listen to her reaction after hearing her legs were gone.

Listen to the urgency in these videos.

The other videos show injuries and accidents.

Questions for thought:

What did these accidents all have in common?

What is your impression of these calls to 9-1-1?

Could this have been avoided?

How does alcohol affect your behavior?

What are the results of bad judgement?

How does a place in life affect judgement?

Is the risk to your safety worth the thrill?

How can your life be affected by a disability?

Alcohol does play a role in accidents on railroads. Here we see again, someone drinking and almost getting killed on the tracks in England on an electrified railroad.

In this video, an officer is hit by a train and survived with multiple injuries while trying to apprehend a suspect trespassing on railroad tracks. He survived, but the suspect got away. Even police in doing their job can still be injured on a railroad.

Questions for thought:

What happened when the officer was pursuing the criminal?

What did the officer do wrong in pursuit of the criminal?

What may happen to the criminal if caught? Could they face additional charges?

The grim impact

Image by ds30 from Pixabay.

Funerals

This is one of the places you may end up if you do not follow the rules and laws of railroads. Not pretty is it? Imagine you are in that grave and that is someone you know visiting you. The hardest part is for the parents and friends. Parents lose their children and friends part forever. You can be killed on railroads in a variety of horrible ways as you will see in this section. Your death can even impact your family and that damage may never be fixed.

Harrington Park Man Struck by train

Trespasser killed in Chatham

Image by Johana Pena from Pixabay.

Racing a train and going around gates is very dangerous and deadly. This video shows what happens when an Amtrak train hits a car at a grade crossing. If caught by police, you will get a ticket if you are lucky to live. Think about people in your car when you decide to be irresponsible and show off. Look at the car and what it looked like. Look at the camera angles showing the accident as it happened. EVERYONE died because of an irresponsible driver.

Questions for thought:

What did this driver not do?

What lessons did you learn in this video?

How can you be a better driver?

Here we see the video "18" again. This shows what happened to Jerome Fielding being killed on railroad tracks when high voltage electricity went through his body. It also shows the aftermath and how even relationships with your friends can change.

Questions for thought:

"18"

What was the aftermath of Jerome's death?

How did his friends handle it?

What bad things did they do before even getting to the tracks?

How quickly did Jerome die?

"No Going Back"

Here we see Jenny horsing around with her friends at a station platform. It wound up costing her life.

Why is it important to not horse around near the edge of a platform?

What was done wrong?

How did distraction play a part in the death?

What should you be doing on a train platform?

What lessons did Jenny learn after she died? How did her death affect others?

Railroad Safety PSA

What are the mistakes you can make in a hobby?

How can they cause injury or death?

How could these railfans have done things differently?

Could it have made a difference?

What is the truth about an "expert" hobbyist? What do they really know and are they really the experts they say they are?

What laws were being broken?

"Close to Home"

This video shows the characters causing the death of another person on a train because of their actions. While British, this film carries a serious message.

What is the possible term for placing items on tracks in the UK?

Did he know the person who was killed?

What was the excuse to the police for what they did?

How do you feel about the excuse?

Additional video:

Teen in Illinois died by third rail.

News feature on same teen

THOUGHTS FOR REVIEW

Both fatalities and injuries need to be spoken about again like we did on the Hazards section of this site. Hearing firsthand what happened to a survivor of a train accident is impacting. The tragic part is that this did not need to happen and these survivors are LUCKY to have lived through a severe trauma from a train. Each person who lived, has reminders of that bad choice for the rest of their lives. People who died also leave behind grieving families and lives cut tragically short.

This is WHY you don't venture onto tracks or attempt to board moving freight trains. Forget what people post on social media about the adventure. That's totally untrue. Ignore the nasty comments on YouTube because they are made by ignorant people. This is reality. Here are some more videos you need to pay attention to:

REMEMBER: If YOU think it WON'T happen to you, it WILL HAPPEN to YOU.

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