Woman + minivan + child + train = …
October 9th 2007 09:07 pm
This morning in Garfield, a woman driving a minivan with a 4 year-old child in it went around the lowered crossing gates and collided with a Bergen County Line train. Sound familiar? There must be some special attraction between women+minivans+kids and trains, much like there is with tornados and trailer parks. At least this time, both occupants of the minivan survived.
Update: According to an article in the Bergen Record, the child was 1 year old and was not restrained. The woman was given summonses for driving without a license, carrying a child without a restraint, failure to obey a railroad crossing signal and careless driving.
Also note that the headline on The Record article is “Mom, baby survive train hit”, like they were minding their own business when the train came out of nowhere and hit them.
Joe Versaggi responded on 10 Oct 2007 at 7:56 am #
I wonder if the insurance company of the minvan is going to pay the entire cost of new crossing apparatus for NJT ? If not, its’s another hidden subsidy from transit systems providing to road users.
Joe Versaggi responded on 10 Oct 2007 at 9:35 am #
The hyperlink/title of the article on the UTU website is even “better”: “Mom, baby survive NJT train collision”.
The impulsive assumption is that two NJT trains crashed and the Mom/Baby were innocent rail passengers.
alewifebp responded on 10 Oct 2007 at 10:56 pm #
At least the 1010wins site made it pretty clear that this woman was a dope, including a picture of the gates down warning sign.
So who gave this woman a license? Let’s see, go through a clearly down railroad crossing, and you don’t even have your baby restrained?