*blows air*

[kyburg]

Witnesses told police that they saw the couple shouting at each other inside a 2005 Dodge Magnum that was waiting at the crossing for the oncoming Lancaster-bound train, which was filled with about 125 passengers, to pass. Suddenly, Sands said, the man pulled his car into the opposing lane of traffic, sped past two other waiting cars and the crossing gate, and parked on the tracks.

Some witnesses told police that Funches appeared to have jumped out of the Dodge just as the train hit the vehicle. But police believe that he was ejected from the car when the train hit it -- perhaps while trying to leave the vehicle. The impact sent metal debris flying, with some of the pieces fatally wounding Funches, Sands said.

Detectives believe that Funches placed the car on the tracks with the passenger side facing the train in hopes of killing his girlfriend.

Some days, karma IS a bitch. This time, nobody else died except the dumbass.

You have to feel for the engineers who drive trains - they say if you do it for more than ten years, you have to deal with at least one person stepping right in front of you - and there's nothing you can do.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I was riding a city bus at twilight, once, one of few passengers, and in the front seat next to the door, when a teenager (I assume) wearing black pants and a black hoodie and riding a little bike leapt his bike off the curb and into the street in front of the bus, rode fast across the two lanes, then bounced over the planted median, crossed the other side, and vanished. He probably landed his bike maybe 13-15 feet in front of the bus, which was going at about 25 mph. The driver hit his brakes but it was irrelevant, the kid was just flying.

The driver just said, "Thing is, if I'd have hit him, it would have been my fault, and if I'd killed him, I would go my whole life knowing I'd killed him, but there wasn't a thing I could have done to stop it, if he'd fallen off his bike right there."