Does this woman realise that trains run on rails, hence the train didn't hit her car, her car had to be in the way of the train?
There is a worrying trend in this country for people to automatically blame everybody else except themselves.
It brings to mind an incident last year when I was reversing my van out of a driveway into a one-way street. My view down the street was blocked by a wall but I could see perfectly well up the street in the direction I thought vehicles would be coming in. After checking both mirrors and keeping an eye on any vehicles coming down I reversed out only to hit, corner to corner, a young woman reversing up the one-way street.
When we got out the vehicles I was met with a tirade of abuse from the driver and passenger who wanted me arrested for the damage I did to her car.
When I calmly pointed out that she was equally to blame as we were both reversing, she went off in a huff saying 'what's the point, the ******'s never going to accept responsibility'.
You're quite right, I imagine any insurer would consider that to have been a 50/50 accident.
I agree entirely that there is what seems a natural, almost instinctive, tendency to blame everybody else but ourselves in today's grim society. The driver in this accident appears completely unaware of the obvious fact that she, and she alone, was directly responsible for causing a rail crash, an extremely serious event whatever the outcome. She appears almost 'blinded' (excuse the unintended pun) by the fact that it was
possible for her to drive straight through the warnings, rather than understanding what a major fault it was on her part to have
missed those warnings, which we have all accepted are very prominent indeed. Yes people make mistakes, but whilst in charge of a motor vehicle there is a threshold above which those mistakes are simply not acceptable, and if you are in the mindset to make them then it is time to stop the vehicle until you are safe to continue.
Let's hope that the Police and the courts reinforce the message by pushing for an appropriate punishment.
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Need I mention that it's 3000+ killed on the roads every year?
Road deaths occur through a wide range of incidents with a huge variety of reasons behind them. They are however almost always very low on the mortality rate when taken as individual incidents. A train can easily be carrying several hundred people, all of whom will be involved if an accident occurs, which can easily be caused by just one person in one vehicle. You would struggle to directly involve a three-figure number of people in one RTA. The consequences scarcely have the potential to be anywhere near as serious.
