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Re: PHOTOS: MNR Derailment |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Dec 1 22:24:57 2013, in response to Re: PHOTOS: MNR Derailment, posted by Bill West on Sun Dec 1 19:33:20 2013. Ejection IS a propelling force. If you are unrestrained in any vehicle, and there is a way for your body to be thrown from your conveyance in a rollover, (whether you are in a car, on a train or in a hydrofoil, for that matter, makes NO difference). Centrifugal force will hurl you right out into the open air through whatever opening is there.Again, you get a lot of C-spine and collarbone injuries in rollover accidents, which certainly was the case here. The G's generated by the sudden deceleration and rollover in this derailment were clearly sufficient to produce the kind of blunt trauma we see here. As for the safety devices, I'm saying that on MNRR equipment, there would have to be a multiple failure for this accident to have occurred as a result of overspeed alone. Cab signaling, alerters, penalty brake system, all would have had to fail, no? |
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