Train vs Trike train driver arrested

[iceblueyes]

I always wondered about accidents involving trains

Hinde ba talaga nila nakikita yung train? From my experience here sa MM, ambagal naman nila na kitang kita pa na parating. Kahit bingi ka pa ramdam na ramdam naman yung vibration. Super bilis ba pag outside MM, tipong tatawid ka sana biglang BOOM?

[niky]

Try feeling any vibrations over the BRRRROOOOOAAAARRRR....PUT PUT PUT PUT PUTPUTUTUTUTUTUT... of a single cylinder motor hauling fourteen people.

Provincial train crossings are not as clearly marked as Manila crossings. Some of them are surrounded by squatter shanties, some hemmed off by tall walls, some are at the tops of small hills because the tracks are raised over the level of the land... and the only time you will actually see the rails themselves is when you're cresting the hillock and are going over the rails themselves.

And almost all of them are poorly lit or completely unlighted. At least most of them are marked.

While it's definitely the tricycle driver's fault... if you've never driven around the small roads in the province, you can't begin to comprehend how dangerous and poorly marked crossings are there.