Yes, the problem was that we hit a pedestrian at the Straight Path crossing. The train that I was on which was an equipment back to Penn (5051) struck a pedestrian roughly around 5:30PM on Thursday. Amazingly, the guy survived the hit. It wasn't a pretty sight. Once again, I'm reminded of how ignorant people are to simply disregard the crossing gates and train horn. This individual also didn't take into account of what the accident does for other people, including my crew as well as myself and the people who were stopped at the crossing and witnessed the whole thing. One lady was with her child and unfortunately saw it all happen. His body could have easily landed on someone else and hurt or kill them. The police had the entire crossing blocked for about 1 hour before we were finally allowed to proceed west to Penn. By that time, I counted a total of 6 trains that were stranded between Hicksville and Farmingdale, with I believe one westbound stuck behind us at Deer Park. I'm sure things were horrendous for the afternoon commute.
