Police: Man uninjured after being run over by freight train

[Jeff Smith]

You can't fix stupid: AP: The Big Story

Good Lord, this idiot was lucky. Thank God for the engineer this wasn't worse, and for his quick reaction.

Brief, fair-use quote:

Police: Man uninjured after being run over by freight train

Troopers say 38-year-old Aaron Collins of Stillwater was highly intoxicated when he went to sleep Wednesday night on tracks in the Rensselaer (rehn-suh-LEER') County town of Schaghticoke (SKA'-tih-kohk), 20 miles north of Albany.

Police say a Pan Am freight train more than a mile long approached around 10:30 p.m. The conductor spotted Collins on the tracks and stopped the train, but not before the first two engines passed over him.

Troopers say the engines were separated and the first engine was moved forward to free Collins, who was uninjured but still drunk.

[BostonUrbEx]

Can't believe the comment about it being no surprise he was unharmed. Seriously? He's lucky the pilot clear him or he'd probably be dead. He must have been flat on his back, but still lucky.

[newpylong]

Any number of things could have turned him into hamburger. Low hanging air hose, brake rigging, and the pilots.

I find you will live longer by not reading comments at the bottom of stories. I have no clue why news sources allow them. The issue with social media is now everyone can say something, especially those who shouldn't be.

[litz]

While pretty rare, this DOES happen on occasion ...

Between the rails, a passed out drunk is basically bonelessly flat against the ground, offering the lowest possible profile ...

A few years back, a college kid passed out in between the rails in Chicago and an unknown number (> 1 for sure) of entire trains passed over before he was spotted and a train stopped.

Kid was uninjured until EMS woke him up, and he cracked his skull on the bottom of a railcar while sitting up, and gave himself a concussion.