amulance races train to a crossing and makes it
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:31 pm
What a misleading title.
The ambulance crossed the tracks well before the crossing signals even activated.
Years ago I had this happen to me.
Our quarters were half a block from the tracks.
We were dispatched emergent on a respiratory arrest.
The grade crossing signals were activated on the single track.
As I approached the crossing, I carefully looked and calculated and without slowing passed two vehicles stopped at the crossing.
The engineer had just begun the horn crossing sequence.
In the rearview mirror I saw that the train arrived about 15 seconds after I crossed.