I always cringe when I see some dumbass go around the arms at a railroad crossing.  Most of the time they get away with it.  But every now and then one of them will get smashed.  Unfortunately, the latest incident resulted in the instantaneous death of a mother (the driver) and the later death of the father.  The 11-month old child, who is now an orphan, is still in the hospital.

It seems that the mother, in her haste to beat the east-bound train didn’t notice the west-bound Amtrack train on the other set of tracks.  I really wish this would be a lesson to people that the five minute wait for the train to pass isn’t the end of the world.  Better to be five minutes late than permanently late.