Another person killed near GO train tracks

[TheNewTeddy]

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1159319--go-train-service-delayed-as-pedestrian-struck-near-clarkson-station?bn=1

This is the 3rd in just the span of a few days. WTF? First truck rollovers now this?

[Guest Manny]

That's so tragic. I used to live near that area myself as a teenager and I remember people getting hit by trains then too. I don't understand why they can't be more careful, when the train is moving in high population areas like this.

[eyeball]

I don't understand why they can't be more careful, when the train is moving in high population areas like this.

There's only so much you can do.

Thivierge said the girl was walking along the tracks with her back to the westbound train.

I would imagine she was likely listening to music through earphones.

Sad sad sad.

[TheNewTeddy]

Call me cruel, but when I hear of someone walking ALONG the tracks, not paying attention, and getting hit. My thoughts are not "Sad" but rather closer to "Score one for Darwin!!"

[Guest American Woman]

She was walking with a friend, but the friend got out of the way on time. According to what I read, it was a windy day, and that's why they didn't hear the train. I don't think she was particularly stupid, others have done what she did - perhaps it's more a matter of some others being lucky that they weren't hit.

[MiddleClassCentrist]

She was walking with a friend, but the friend got out of the way on time. According to what I read, it was a windy day, and that's why they didn't hear the train. I don't think she was particularly stupid, others have done what she did - perhaps it's more a matter of some others being lucky that they weren't hit.

It's a tragic event.

But maybe making better decisions would have prevented it. (Darwin Award)

[Guest American Woman]

It's a tragic event.

But maybe making better decisions would have prevented it. (Darwin Award)

Most people at some point in their lives make bad decisions and the vast majority have lived to tell about it. How many people have walked on railroad tracks and lived to tell about it? Countless, I would imagine. This girl wasn't more stupid - she was just less fortunate.

[TheNewTeddy]

I don't think she was particularly stupid, others have done what she did - perhaps it's more a matter of some others being lucky that they weren't hit.

She was walking along the tracks.

I was in Guelph with my best friend when he decided to walk between a set of tracks. I berated him, telling him that he might get hit, and he was like "naw, nobody uses these tracks" but I went on. I told him that I have a bus to catch home and that if he gets run over, he better not expect me to stay behind, and that the police, not me, would have to tell his mother that he is now dead, and that if he wants someone to feel bad for him getting run over to a train that he should have taken someone else to Guelph with him. Finally he moved outside of the tracks. Weather it was to shut me up or because he knew I was right matters not, at least now he was far more safe.

[Shady]

My thoughts are not "Sad" but rather closer to "Score one for Darwin!!"

That's how I feel about drug addicts, and/or single mothers that have multiple children with little to no job. Except that we subsidize that Darwinian behavior.

[eyeball]

That's how I feel about drug addicts...Except that we subsidize that Darwinian behavior.

That's right, Darwin would immediately recognize that prohibition causes the evolution of stronger drugs and smarter criminals.

[Shady]

That's right, Darwin would immediately recognize that prohibition causes the evolution of stronger drugs and smarter criminals.

And he would also recognize that only the strong survive.

[TheNewTeddy]

They've released pictures of the girl who got herself run over.