Train crash at O'Hare

[BNB]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/03...PH&utm_source=topvph_news&utm_campaign=539970

[video=youtube;TFiN3m64LnQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFiN3m64LnQ[/video]




How the **** did she still have the job after she fell asleep once already? If this hadn't been at 2:30 A.M., so many people could have died. I've walked up and down those stairs and escalators so many times when there was like 20-40 people on them at the same time. That could have been tragic. Thankfully no one got seriously hurt this time.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

#ChicagoProblems

 

[Scoot26]

I thought the brakes on the train failed?

 

[Crystallas]

Same. I thought these cars had automatic braking(which also are known to fail because the sensors aren't ever going to be perfect).

 

[BNB]

Yeah the article says the automatic stopping system was, well, trying to stop the train.

 

[KittiesKorner]

Dumbass conductor had already been reprimanded recently for falling asleep and passing a station.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

How does one keep a job as a conductor if they get caught falling asleep?

 

[KittiesKorner]

CTA union I bet

 

[Scoot26]

CTA union I bet

:yep:

 

[KittiesKorner]

About a year and a half ago I was reading my book on the bus and we were approaching Grand and Chicago pretty fast. Next thing I know the bus's right wheels have gone up on the curb and part of a street-sign pole is sticking through the window about inches from my head. I should have sued those *******.

 

[Nail Polish]

I thought the brakes on the train failed?

She fell asleep at the wheel...2nd time in less than a year..They will probably promote her now cause her present job is too stressful for her...lol

 

[Mitchapalooza]

About a year and a half ago I was reading my book on the bus and we were approaching Grand and Chicago pretty fast. Next thing I know the bus's right wheels have gone up on the curb and part of a street-sign pole is sticking through the window about inches from my head. I should have sued those *******.

damn, you should've sued.

 

[SERE Bear]

About a year and a half ago I was reading my book on the bus and we were approaching Grand and Chicago pretty fast. Next thing I know the bus's right wheels have gone up on the curb and part of a street-sign pole is sticking through the window about inches from my head. I should have sued those *******.

you would have needed to head but the sign to show some minor injury to go with your mental trauma

 

[KittiesKorner]

you would have needed to head but the sign to show some minor injury to go with your mental trauma

that's why I didn't bother. But it still pissed me off. We have bus drivers crashing into houses all the time here, lol

 

[zack54attack]

Well, that escalated quickly.