Teenager hurt in train mishap
A 16-year-old described as trying to jump onto a commuter train was seriously injured in Dorval early this morning. Moral of this story is one we’ve seen before on the blog: don’t horse around with trains, even if it’s a maneuver you’ve seen in a movie.
LJ 11:26 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
I am guessing it was a freight and not a commuter train, because at that time there are no commuter trains on the line that runs through Dorval.
Kate 12:44 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
I think you’re right.
js 13:00 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
Makes you wonder how many “On the Road”-related injuries of this type there’ve been over the past six decades.
Michael Black 13:11 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
It was fairly common in the thirties, people having no money and needing to be elsewhere.
I suspect even people doing “hobby hoboing” is a tiny segment of the population, so deaths will be a small number.
But people keep getting killed for other reasons. The kids painting graffiti near a train line. People not waiting for a train to move, so they try to climb over and the train moves. Not just Sarah Stott, but there was an incident at the Old Port. There was a recent story of someone being hit because there was no barrier.
I can’t recall any local examples, but I’ve read that it’s not uncommon for people to sit on rail tracks for a photo, and being hurt when a train comes along.
Michael
Blork 13:17 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
Yes, the “killed while doing train track photos” thing is real. The Online Photographer made a post about that back in 2013: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/10/union-pacific.html
Blork 13:18 on 2018-12-16 Permalink
…and again in 2015: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2015/09/a-plea-to-photography-teachers.html