Both people inside the SUV sustained burns, but their injuries are not life-threatening

But I bet their hearing will be "somewhat impaired" for some time to come

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Oops

I think that the Port Authority should think about dredging that channel just a tad deeper.

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

More work for Tad. ;)

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Oops

I think that the Port Authority should think about dredging that channel just a tad deeper.

Yes, enough to cover the tide at least.

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Oops

I think that the Port Authority should think about dredging that channel just a tad deeper.

Or the Captains should keep their vessels in the channel.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Transport for London has announced a number of "safety improvements" for their buses - one of them caught my eye:

features to alert other road users of the presence of buses;

For those that aren't aware London buses are BIG and RED, but people still walk/drive/cycle into them...

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

That's the most blatant insulting & sexist post you've made to date. There is no need for that crap in the Café thank you very much!

That's the most blatant insulting & sexist post you've made to date. There is no need for that crap in the Café thank you very much!

+1

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Southwest Research Institute continue working on ways to send alerts for wrong way drivers on the highways.

Electronic research could help eliminate wrong-way driving

Kevin Balke turned his SUV southeastward, checked his instruments and confirmed he was ready. Nearly a mile of concrete stood before him with plenty of room to run, but he wouldn't need all of it to prove his point — he'd be going the wrong way in no time.

The Houston Chronicle reports accelerating past a pole jutting from an electrical box — just like the ones that line every Texas highway — it took only a few seconds for the tablet mounted to the dash of Balke's Ford Explorer to explode with the flashing warning: Wrong Way, styled just like the signs common on roads, with a red background and bold letters.

"It got us," Balke said, confirming the tablet gave him the warning he wanted to see.

Wednesday it was just a demonstration of an ongoing research project by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Southwest Research Institute. It will not be too many tomorrows, however, until it ends up in drivers' dashboards as cars communicate their position and the wrong-way mistakes of drivers, to others.

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Today there was a wrong way driver and passenger on a fwy, 3 or 4 people(sources aren't sure), the vehicles are a car and a motorcycle, 1 or 2 were slightly injured in the car, the 2 on the motorcycle are in critical condition, it could have been much worse.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20170818/4-injured-in-motorcycle-chase-that-ends-in-wrong-way-diamond-bar-crash
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Wrong-Way-Driver-Diamond-Bar-Four-Injured-Two-Bicyclists--440986933.html

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Today there was a wrong way driver and passenger on a fwy, 3 or 4 people(sources aren't sure), the vehicles are a car and a motorcycle, 1 or 2 were slightly injured in the car, the 2 on the motorcycle are in critical condition, it could have been much worse.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20170818/4-injured-in-motorcycle-chase-that-ends-in-wrong-way-diamond-bar-crash
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Wrong-Way-Driver-Diamond-Bar-Four-Injured-Two-Bicyclists--440986933.html

That was intentional, not accidental.
Short of a device in a car/on a bike that takes out the driver/rider when they go the wrong way, nothing will stop people doing it intentionally.

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Grant
Darwin NT

That was intentional, not accidental.

And potentially quite Darwinian.

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That was intentional, not accidental.

And potentially quite Darwinian.

Yes, quite.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Both at "extremely low speed".

2nd derailment in a week

Track issues?

The Waterloo one looked like badly set points - which should have been locked during the track work. Serious oopsie.

But WTF happened at Paddington? How does the back end of a train derail before it even leaves the platform? I don't see any points (either on the station plan or google satellite view) until well outside the station.

(for our American friends, points = switches)

The Waterloo one looked like badly set points - which should have been locked during the track work. Serious oopsie.

But WTF happened at Paddington? How does the back end of a train derail before it even leaves the platform? I don't see any points (either on the station plan or google satellite view) until well outside the station.

(for our American friends, points = switches)

And switches=turnouts, thanks Richard.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The Waterloo one looked like badly set points - which should have been locked during the track work. Serious oopsie.

That same day, a GNL train hit the buffers at Kings X. With the hundreds of journeys I've made into & from Kings X, never had a straight in approach. Have always been held in the tunnel just outside the station.

Would say that oopsie was down to the driver letting his mind wander & too much speed.

But WTF happened at Paddington? How does the back end of a train derail before it even leaves the platform?

Vandals pulling spikes or tie plates? Thermal expansion, contraction? Since you use concrete sleepers, bad mix or missing rebar? If wood sleepers, termites? Metal fatigue? Failure to inspect track? Terrorism? Maintenance screw-up?

But WTF happened at Paddington? How does the back end of a train derail before it even leaves the platform?

Vandals pulling spikes or tie plates? Thermal expansion, contraction? Since you use concrete sleepers, bad mix or missing rebar? If wood sleepers, termites? Metal fatigue? Failure to inspect track? Terrorism? Maintenance screw-up?

In the US wooden ties/sleepers were covered in creosote, I don't know if this is true anymore or not, termites I think don't like creosote.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's