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Alan · 10-09-2009, 03:57 AM

What a sad day for all of us in southeast Michigan who got bombarded by this story on the local news for days. One theory I heard was that many slow moving freights use these tracks and that the driver may have thought it was a slow moving freight and not an Amtrak train moving at 70mph. What a tragic story.

10-09-2009, 03:57 AM	#8
Alan Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: W.Bloomfield, MI Posts: 66	What a sad day for all of us in southeast Michigan who got bombarded by this story on the local news for days. One theory I heard was that many slow moving freights use these tracks and that the driver may have thought it was a slow moving freight and not an Amtrak train moving at 70mph. What a tragic story.