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    This poor soul was having a really bad day

    From my PA news aggregator:

    A Perry County man survived a Tuesday morning crash but was struck and killed by a train while standing on tracks beside his wrecked car, Pennsylvania State Police said.

    The 26-year-old Newport man, whose name has not yet been released, was driving too fast for icy road conditions around 6 a.m. Tuesday when his Jeep hit an embankment and rolled several times, state police said.

    The Jeep came to a rest on train tracks north of Lower Bailey Road in Oliver Township, according to state police.

    A Norfolk Southern train fatally hit the man while he was standing outside his car, state police said. The Jeep sustained severe front and side damage.

    The state police’s Newport barracks is investigating the crash and the man’s death.
    RIP young man.
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    I'm only wondering if he was so dazed by the event that he couldn't make himself aware of the oncoming train...We may never know......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    I'm only wondering if he was so dazed by the event that he couldn't make himself aware of the oncoming train...We may never know......Ben
    I had the same thought
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    He tried to cheat Death, and Death wasn't having it.
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    reminds me of the line in Lawrence of Arabia where Lawrence has to execute a man whose life he had spared. "See it was written"
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    Quote Originally Posted by TriGuy View Post
    reminds me of the line in Lawrence of Arabia where Lawrence has to execute a man whose life he had spared. "See it was written"
    I just watched that one again...Another YouTube freebie......Ben
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    Ahhh... yes. It's a classic movie I regularly watch. The point of the movie seems to be that females remain out of the way with no tangible roles.

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