Train hits truck with wind mill blade
Dave Hughes Farm
Seems like videos like this pop up on a regular basis and I got to wondering just how often this happens, so I asked Mr. Google and he says nine per week! That's near 500 per year! You've got figure that every time there is one of these collisions it's gotta cost a million dollars, and that's if nobody gets hurt. Besides the immediate damage, there are the delays, the disrupted schedules, the investigation, the penalties, and there is a good chance there will be litigation, even if it's just the insurance companies arguing about who will pay.
On the other hand there are three million trucks in the USA. Figure they're driving 50,000 miles a year and each mile costs at least a dollar, that's $150 billion dollars. Compare to that $500 million is just noise, especially when the true cost of trucking is closer to a trillion dollars.
Still, you'd think that even a measly $500 million bucks would bestir someone in trucking or insurance to try and put a stop to these collisions, or least reduce the frequency. Actually, industry ought to get their act together cause if they don't, the federal government is liable to step in, and then nobody will be happy.
All of which reminded me of this tune:
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
Why do I persist in thinking this is a David Bowie tune? Does it sound like him, maybe?
There's also a cool mashup of this tune with a bunch of different dancing people. The voice is not the same though.
2 comments:
"Why do I think this is a David Bowie song"?!
You need to stop eating the shrooms from your backyard?
If "the authorities" really gave a shit about public safety on our roads, things would be completely different. For one, there would be a big push to eliminate level crossings. Since the railroads own the right-of-way, motorists are "tolerated trespassers", crossing at their own risk. Of course, cities, states, and federals could spend the money to eliminate level crossings, but they don't. They put in the bare minimum of gates and signals and call it a day. Then they spend billions on bike paths and public parks. And palaces for government "workers". So yes, there are level crossing collisions every day all across the country. Just like there are tens of thousands of traffic fatalities every year in the US (we had one yesterday on I-17 at Daisy Mountain Road). And nobody seems to care. ~Chris
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