Driver Survives Two Car-Train Crashes

CHamilton · Oct 14, 2013

(KUTV) The first crash---car into train---looked bad enough. The second crash---train into the same car---may have been worse. But remarkably, a woman driver of the vehicle is alive and reasonably well.

“She just hit the train!” was the radio dispatch Sunday morning from a Woods Cross police officer. A cloud kicked up from the point of impact, and the crumpled car stayed on the tracks.

The officer hurried to the vehicle, tried to break a window to get to the driver, but in less than a minute, a horn blared from a second train---and then another locomotive plowed into the car.

“As officers were attempting to get her out of the car, another southbound train struck the vehicle,” said Detective Adam Osoro. “It just couldn’t stop in time. It was too close to this (first) incident.”...

“She’s a 29 year old female,” said Osoro. “She was transported by ambulance to University of Utah hospital, where she has non-life threatening injuries. The information we’ve obtained from the hospital so far is that she just has a broken arm.”

Ispolkom · Oct 14, 2013

"Woman driver"? KUTV, 1965 called and wants its gender stereotypes back.

CHamilton · Oct 14, 2013

Video of the above.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c90_1381721438

FriskyFL · Oct 14, 2013

"Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise"

Ryan · Oct 14, 2013

Darwin must be pissed off mightily after 2 attempts to clear this driver from the roads.

SarahZ · Oct 14, 2013

Oh my god. This just gets better and better.

This might explain why she just sat there instead of getting out of the car right away (and how the police got there so quickly).

Moments earlier, Osoro said police were called to a nearby residence, on a report that the woman was an “unwanted guest.” She fled, according to the detective, and a patrolman tried to stop her car on Redwood Road. Osoro said there was a “brief pursuit,” and that the woman drove her car into the first train.