What happens when a train runs over you?

It can possibly lead to a lot of injuries, and those injuries can be very severe. It can also lead to death, ether later or instantly due to those injuries. However, if you survived after being hit by a train, your life is more likely to change due to the injuries that you've received.



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Approximately 1,000 people per year are killed in train accidents. However, the individual hit by the train sometimes survives and lives to tell the story of what it was like.

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By the time a train operator sees you, it is too late to stop the train in time. An oncoming train is moving faster and is closer to you than it appears. Similar to an airplane traveling at 150 mph that appears to float onto the runway, it's hard to determine a train's speed and distance from you.

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The middle of the train is by far the safest for persons. The National Transportation Safety Board does not release comprehensive data on where victims were sitting during fatal train accidents, though some details are available in individual investigative reports.

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You can't outrun a train.

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It depends on how you are killed by a train. Standing in front of a slower moving freight train would be painful. If you don't get knocked out from the initial impact then you will feel you body be cut up by the wheels seconds before you actually die.

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You would think it would, but depending on the train's speed, you could die slowly and painfully or instantly. Think of it this way-a train hitting a car at a decent speed (50–55mph) is like a car running over a soda can.

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Long trains take longer time to stop than a single car because the braking effort is not synchronized.

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The Glacier Express is the world's slowest train, taking more than eight hours to travel between Zermatt and St. Moritz in Switzerland at an average of 18mph. Along the way, it passes over nearly 300 bridges, travels through 91 tunnels and takes in endless stunning Alpine views.

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Every three hours, a person or vehicle is hit by a train in the United States. However, many of these are preventable. This is one of the many reasons why being educated about rail safety is so important.

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The metaphor comes from the high-voltage third rail in some electric railway systems. This third rail, used to power trains, usually results in the death by electrocution of anyone who comes into direct contact with it.

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The metaphor comes from the high-voltage third rail in some electric railway systems. This third rail, used to power trains, usually results in the death by electrocution of anyone who comes into direct contact with it.

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“People assume that trains are loud, but that assumption is based on the fact that when a train's gone past them in a station it's noisy. That's because the noise a train makes is mainly projected to either side. When trains are moving directly towards you they are barely audible–until it's too late.”

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Modern trains have lots of stuff underneath. Motors, gearboxes, big boxes of power electronics, etc, etc. There is very little spare room under many trains, and chances are something will grab you and bundle you up into a disorganised mess of broken limbs. You probably won't die straight away, it'll take a while.

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The train is faster, bigger, and more powerful – it can't stop fast enough to avoid you. People have died because they tried to outrun a train. Pedestrians have died because they were walking on the tracks and did not realize how fast the train was coming.

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#1 Sri Lanka Tsunami Train Wreck The train, dubbed the Queen of the Sea, was destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2004, in what is now considered the world's deadliest rail tragedy.

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