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A woman now lays in a hospital on life support and two of her four children are dead.

Whatever her pace of life, was it really worth racing a train, risking her life and her children’s life for the sake of waiting for it to pass?

The mother could not see that a train was heading in the opposite direction to the train she was racing, when she attempted to cross the track she was hit by that train and her car was knocked into the path of the one she was trying to beat. While local residents perhaps may choose to blame the incident on the lack of barriers, I will blame the mother. There were warning lights, clearly visible, and there was A BIG TRAIN. If that was not warning enough, then I don’t think a barrier, which she could easily have driven around, would have changed the outcome. What more warning do you need than the possibility of death?!

The next time you drive quicker to beat something, be it a red light or a train, remember these images…