Spanish train kills 12 on tracks

[Admiral Huddy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/10399126.stm

Feel sorry for the train driver personally.

Mr Cardona said he saw "mutilated people, blood everywhere, blood on the platform".

"The noise was like rocks being crushed,"

Grim

 

[slambo69]

Sounds absolutely horrific.

 

[Ziggy]

Horrible.

 

['Wes]

Horrific but despite they say it's common practice to take the chance of jumping over the train lines, it's still an idiotic thing to do.

 

[Tute]

Sounds horrible, but sadly, crossing live train tracks is never a good idea.

 

[mcast123]

I really hope pictures don't surface on the net, my curiousity will get the better of me and what has been seen can't be unseen.

 

[TMP]

Savage, sounds like there was allot of witnesses close by, must have been tough to watch..

 

[Diesel]

I always wonder how you fail to notice a huge train thundering towards you.

 

[SiriusB]

Oh no, that's horrible.

The driver of that train is never getting a nights sleep ever again!

 

[steve-h]

were crossing the tracks rather than using a pedestrian underpass.

I feel sorry for everyone who had to see that...

 

[Kazz]

Horrific . Just head this on the radio news.

Reading the article it seems it was common place to use the other door (on the track side), jump down and nip across if the station was busy. Glad not everyone did that used the crowded underpass.

 

[Ranek405]

I always wonder how you fail to notice a huge train thundering towards you.

I used to work at a railway station. Its scary just how quickly those fast trains can close down on you. You see them down the line and within 5-10 seconds they're going past.

 

[Dewotter]

Terrible thing to happen, one can only imagine what the driver must be feeling at this time.

 

[JBuk]

I always wonder how you fail to notice a huge train thundering towards you.

Unless you're paying full attention I could imagine by the time you notice a high speed train then it's too late

 

[Cosimo]

That's horrific.

 

[Dark_Angel]

That's... terrible..

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I always wonder how you fail to notice a huge train thundering towards you.

They probably did, but in panic one falls over and they go.

 

[Indy500]

The station seems to suffer from overcrowding, hopefully the operator puts in some more protected crossings...

 

[Vampire]

I don't know if its the same everywhere in Europe but in eastern europe lots of stations don't even have proper platforms, it's common practice to walk across several sets of tracks to get to your train.

I've also been to one station where the shortcut to the village is to cross a big viaduct, people wait for the train to go then walk across it, they don't usually come more than every 10 or 15 minutes - usually!

 

[antijoke]

That is horrific.