Friday, January 7, 2011

Concern for the Trucker


bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Fatal Car Crash":

Actually, these anonymous bloggers are all wrong. The concern should be more for the trucker than anyone else, who was made against his (or her) will to take the life of others and will have to deal with it. I doubt anyone in the WELS will be sending him or her money for counselling sessions:

East 46th Street and Portland Avenue South:

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GJ - One program on TV discussed the devastating impact on railroad engineers when their trains strike and kill passengers in a car. As I recall, one almost ran over a baby because the mother took a flimsy buggy across multiple tracks and got it stuck. The mother stood there working on the wheels instead of taking the baby away. A man rescued them both at the last minute. The engineer did not hurt anyone, but he collapsed when the train stopped and he left the cab.

Similarly, I saw a car slowly drive across tracks when a train was coming, the lights were on, and the engineer was blowing his horn. Once the car was clear, for no apparent reason, the driver slowly crossed the tracks again, just missing a fatal accident.

The truck driver will have to live with two fatalities. The facts revealed so far state that Pastor Voss ran the red light.