I saw someone & their kids almost die this morning FWD -v- Train.

Driving home from a little shopping expedition, and I decided to come home the long way and have a look at a new ore extraction mill that's in the process of being built on the Line of Lode.

As I approached the Holton Drive Railway Crossing the lights came on, and I slowed down and stopped, and thought, 'Here we go again there will be a long freighter coming up the grade into town as slow as a wet week, will I put the billy on', but as there wasn't much of an option I switched off and sat.

Well the train wasn't coming the way I expected, it was rolling down the grade, headed east, and as it came into sight I could see it was picking up speed and blowing its horn to warn us that it was approaching.

A Tojo GLX came up behind me, slowed down, and then accelerated, went round me, over double lines and into the path of the train. The leading locomotive missed the rear nearside by about a foot. This vehicle was driven by some stupid woman and there were a couple of kids seated in the back.

I lost sight of it as the train passed me with the horn literally screaming and the brakes on with what I would suggest was an emergency application. Didn't make much difference though because about 30 container wagons went past before it stopped.

I wonder if that woman realises how close she was to getting herself & her kids fatally or severely injured, and of course it's just the thing you like to happen directly in front of you.

I've made an appointment to see the copper here who runs the 'tyre biters', and ask him if he'll task someone to sit off the crossing. It doesn't take a degree in rocketry to find out when the trains pass through. I won't hold my breath though.

But gees it gave me a fright, I wonder if the train crew had a change of underwear?

Trains -V- motor vehicles - any bets on who wins?