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http://www.nbc6.net/news/9197424/detail.htmlQuote »Driver Killed When Train Hits CarPOSTED: 10:52 am EDT May 11, 2006UPDATED: 2:15 pm EDT May 11, 2006HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- Hallandale Beach police said a driver was killed Thursday morning when a train struck a car that was apparently trying to drive around the railroad track crossing gates. Images From Chopper 6Police said the driver of a white Pontiac tried to cross the railroad tracks by driving around the crossing bars, but got stuck in the process.The train then hit the car, pushing it about a half mile down the track, according to authorities.The driver of the car died at the scene.Police closed Third Street and Hallandale Beach Boulevard at Dixie Highway during the investigation

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wow usually cars dont even look like cars after a train...well that is bad but...if your stupid enough to cross...i guess you can just throw your life away :S

The train hit the passenger side, and yet the driver died?

Probasbly wasn't wearing her/his seatbelt.

Quote, originally posted by Baltovibe »The train hit the passenger side, and yet the driver died?http://www.miami.com/mld/miami...4.htmQuote »Retired maitre d' of tony club in Miami killed at rail crossingAn 82-year-old Aventura man died in a train crash in Hallandale Beach Thursday when he drove his car onto the tracks -- and braked.BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ AND YUDY PINEIROypineiro@MiamiHerald.comAs maitre d' at a ritzy lunch club for socialites and community leaders, Simon Clemens' job was to get to know everyone: where they sat, what they ate.And regulars -- who ranged from former U.S. Sen. George Smathers to Miami developer Armando Codina -- hailed Clemens as an irreplaceable fixture at the intimate weekly gatherings at the Hotel Inter-Continental.But on Thursday, the 82-year-old Aventura man, who worked for decades at the Standard Club until it closed in 1990, died when a train hit his car in Hallandale Beach.Clemens drove his white Pontiac Vibe around the down crossing gates about 8:30 a.m. -- and braked on the tracks near Southwest Third Street, police said.A Florida East Coast Railway train collided with the car and dragged it several blocks north to Hallandale Beach Boulevard, police spokesman Andrew Casper said.Clemens died on the scene. Police are investigating what happened.Before James Albert, head of a Miami construction firm, recruited him to run the Standard Club in 1961, Clemens was a headwaiter at Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach.At both establishments, he was revered for his hospitality.Besides being maitre d', the French-born Clemens was the keeper of the Standard Club's traditions.The Standard Club opened in the 1960s as an intimate gathering for Jewish social and community leaders at a time when the Miami Club turned Jews away. Peak membership: 425. They met for weekday lunches at Dupont Plaza Hotel.The club later moved to the River Park Hotel and then to the Pavillion Grill at the Inter-Continental. Among the club's most frequent and high-profile diners: Maurice Gusman, Judge A. Jay Cristol, publisher James Knight and lawyer Martin Fine.In a 1990 Miami Herald article on the closing of two ''Old World'' institutions, Clemens said: ``All these people, they're the backbone of the city. After all these years, you know what all these people like. I know my place, when to approach, when not to do it.''I think being in a car as it is hit by a train would probably give me a heart attack. It's hard to know how fragile this 82 year old Viber was.

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Quote, originally posted by Baltovibe »The train hit the passenger side, and yet the driver died?The not wearing seatbelt is probably true, plus the G forces of a train hitting a car would alone be enough to kill. Add some flying glass in the mix as well.

im kinda wondering why he would stop on the tracks? sounds like he wanted to get hit if he stopped.

Quote »Police said the driver of a white Pontiac tried to cross the railroad tracks by driving around the crossing bars, but got stuck in the process.Clemens drove his white Pontiac Vibe around the down crossing gates about 8:30 a.m. -- and braked on the tracks near Southwest Third Street, police said.When I first read the story, I thought he got stuck and was struck. Then reading the 2nd story where he braked on the tracks, it really seems it was a suicide mission ... for both him and his beautiful Vibe!So Sad

That is really sad. It does look good for being hit by a train.

Quote, originally posted by baltovibe »The train hit the passenger side, and yet the driver died?Quote, originally posted by redlava »The not wearing seatbelt is probably true, plus the G forces of a train hitting a car would alone be enough to kill. Add some flying glass in the mix as well.Even if you were in an indestructable car, a train hitting it would kill you simply from the G-forces of accelerating from 0 to tens of mph instantly.I guess it goes to show that although Vibes may be awesome, you can make no assumptions about Vibe drivers.....

There was an old lady that lived through a wreck like this that happened at the tracks right behind my place... She had a big Buick of some description. No crossing gates or anything, and the lights usually malfunction. If I had a dollar for every time I've gone home and saw the lights flashing but not a train in sight... She probably blew right through the crossing thinking a train wasn't coming because the stupid lights ware always flashing. Not sure how she lived, but she did! No major injuries. They finally got the lights working sorta ok after that, they're probably up to 80% working normally now. I hate things in my town, they don't keep their equipment in the best shape. Like that time I had my roof rack smacked by the fricken gate when I went through a crossing when the gate decided it was time to come down but there wasn't a train anywhere to be found.

Odd thing is, I forgot about this other Vibe vs train threadin that one, the Vibe driver survived.I usually try to add on to a previous thread, this time I screwed up, so if a mod wants to do a thread merge, ok by me