Amtrak hits Pedestrian in E Rochester

Rochester D&C Newspaper is reporting a fatality due to pedestrian on the tracks near Despatch Shops. Says was hit by an EB Amtrak.

"Train strikes, kills pedestrian in E. Rochester"

Next time, throw in a link, please...

One person is dead after being struck by an Amtrak train this morning in East Rochester. About 9:05 a.m., 911 got a call from Amtrak that a train headed eastbound for Albany struck a pedestrian, who was crossing the tracks near 220 West Maple Avenue near the Despatch Junction building. The area is not designated for crossing, said John Alfieri, East Rochester Fire Chief.

Not a pedestrian, a trespasser. Must be a slow news day in Rochester!

Here's a link to the full article.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/art ... 1/90108005

-otto-

prediction:

local news channels will carry this story every day for a week or so..
lots of clips of outraged politicians..
lots of shouting from politicians and clueless local idiots along the lines of: "the railroad should do something!" and "the railroad should build a fence!"

ample use of the words "pedestrian", "innocent" and "victim"

Zero use of the words "trespassing" or "trespassers fault" or "personal responsibility" or "dont illegally trespass on the railroad tracks and you wont get hit by a train"

Scot

scottychaos wrote:prediction:

local news channels will carry this story every day for a week or so..
lots of clips of outraged politicians..
lots of shouting from politicians and clueless local idiots along the lines of: "the railroad should do something!" and "the railroad should build a fence!"

ample use of the words "pedestrian", "innocent" and "victim"

Zero use of the words "trespassing" or "trespassers fault" or "personal responsibility" or "dont illegally trespass on the railroad tracks and you wont get hit by a train"

Scot

Wrong already Scot

R News wrote:East Rochester police say they try to enforce the "no trespassing" policy on the tracks, which are owned by CSX.

http://rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=6834 ... ry_type=18

keeper1616 wrote: Wrong already Scot

R News wrote:East Rochester police say they try to enforce the "no trespassing" policy on the tracks, which are owned by CSX.

http://rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=6834 ... ry_type=18

good!
im glad to be wrong!

I hope we see more of that..

Scot

Tuesday Jan. 13, Channel 13 news in Rochester is reporting that the death has been ruled a suicide by the Monroe County medical examiner.

Seems like that stretch of track through East Rochester has a pretty high body count - and it's almost always Amtrak too.

So the title should say "Pedestrian hits Amtrak in E Rochester"?

No, it should say "Amtrak hits trespasser in East Rochester"

People always assume theres lots of noise with trains. Amtrak travels through there at 79MPH, Eastbound is slightly downhill, and westbounds are being shoved through hear by the hill west of Fairport, so there is little noise. And often trespassers misjudge the speed of the on coming train, especially Amtraks. In a car/train accident this past year, and the driver stated he saw a slow moving train coming and didn't want to get stuck by it, started across the tracks and was struck be another train heading the opposisite direction. The slow moving train was doing nearly 45mph. Fortunately all survived. The sorry part is, there are underpasses with clear sidewalks within 200ft of the common trespass spots. People say there should be fences. You should see the condition of the fence behind the Tops store of West Ave. Rochester. The store maintains the fence and gets it fixed every year, but within a week or so, trespassers cut a new hole through it anyway. The only real effective way to stop this activity is making arrests. And what Village can afford to post a Police Officer here 24hrs a day. Suicides are another animal all together and a person that determined most likely won't be stopped. A friend of mine who participates in Operation Lifesaver, told me it is unbelievable how many people, teens and adults alike, who believe that the railroad ROW is public access. Education and enforcement. Problem is nobody cares about Railroads untill a tradgedy and then it's the Railroads fault.

Was driving through East Syracuse today and watched a guy walking through the snow across CP285 like 100 feet east of the Bridge Street overpass, crossing both the mainline and the leads into Dewitt yard. That doesn't seem like a good place to cross what with the curve leaving you blind looking westbound. People are just lazy and only worried about themselves.

I live a few hundred yards from an active line and while most trains make enough noise to notice, sometimes they sneak in so quiet I wouldn't know they went by if I hadn't happened to look out the window and see one... or if the engineer lets the slack run in when he stops for the signal/10 MPH restriction about a mile below me. It's funny the way the sound carries so that you can hear a locomotive horn 6,8, 10 miles away, but not hear a thing right next to the tracks.

Sorry, needed to vent. LVRR, just on the westside of the bridge at CP 285 theres a improvised footbridge across the drainage ditch and a very active pathway between the southside and the thrift store parking lot. It'll never change.

BR&P wrote:No, it should say "Amtrak hits trespasser in East Rochester"

Better yet "Idiot got what he had coming to him"

Gotta feel bad for the train engineer though.