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A tough night for the Bruins. They were ahead when nothing. Now they're behind three to one, sort of like the season. They started off pretty well and ever since January first has been not been great. Well, anyway, it wasn't great yesterday in Canton. I don't know how many of you heard about this story, but I got some questions about it. The story that we're talking about is a story that
we've heard before. Okay, there's a vehicle in this case. Yesterday, it was a tractor trailer truck that was stuck on a railroad crossing, and there was an MBTA train, a commuter rail train, that ran into the tractor trailer truck tractor trailer and pushed it down the track. On Wednesday, Thank god, there was well, there was only an injury of one passenger. Sure power lines were knocked out, but it was quite a mess. Those of you who live in that neck of the woods or maybe were impacted
by this. Had happened yesterday afternoon about one at a crossing on Pine Street. According to Canton Police, the truck was traveling. I'm reading here from a Globe article which was posted late yesterday afternoon by Nick Stoiko and Sarah Mesheidian Globe staff and Globe correspondent. The truck driver escaped just before impact was not injured. A train passenger complained of neck and back pain, taken to a local hospital
with minor injuries. Some power lines were knocked down, and the fire chief said luckily no major injuries could have been worse. Crashes under investigation by the MBTA Transit Police. I don't know if they get federal authorities involved in this at this point, but maybe they're going to get involved as well, according to Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan. He responded an email, we're investigating the facts and circumstances
surrounding the incident, and this is what is interesting. It says all proper safety warnings were functioning and operating as expected. Now we're going to come back to that sentence, Okay, how the tractor trailer truck was on the tracks and the gates in front of the gate or the gate came down in front of it and behind it. We'll get to that. In a moment. I looked at the
video of the crash. Someone was they were in another vehicle and they were rollings in videotape and you could see this train just was barrel and I'm going to talk about that as well. Images posted online by police showed a heavily damn imaged something a Ross Express truck. I have no idea perpendicular to the train. I'll bet
it was. It appeared the train that pushed the truck down the track away from the crossing were to appear at the gates were at least partially drawn down and were damagedols of course runs the MBTA Computer Train Company System said, the company that said in a statement that the crossing gates at lights were operating as intended. So
that's from Keolas and the Transit Police. Superintendent Sullivan said the proper safety warnings were functioning and operating as expected, which would basically I think from Keola's and the MPTA point somewhat of an accusation against the driver. I'm not interested in doing that, but that's okay. The company had
no comment. The trucking company is based in New England, with its main office up in New Hampshire and office delivery service across New England, Delaware, Maryland, in New Jersey as well as parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. According to its website, shuttle busses took passages between Stote and Canton. The MVTA police this is a piece from yesterday set on social media that the Stoke
Line trains would terminate and originate at Canton Center. Crash happened at the same crossing where a train crashed into a car on February twenty seventh, so that's less than two months ago, about six weeks ago. The driver of that car, forty nine year old woman, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. So here's my question. Okay, I got a bunch of questions here, and some of you, probably I hope, have more knowledge of this than maybe
I do. Why can't there be a system created which would tell trains that you know a mile away that there's a truck that is on a crossing. Now, there could be lots of reasons a truck could be on a crossing, could be I guess, and maybe it's a one in a ten thousand shot that the truck is going across the crossing and at that very moment the
truck stalls or whatever, not likely. Okay, Maybe here the driver attempted to cross the crossing, didn't realize how close the train was, and all of a sudden, down comes the gate in front of him and at the same time the gate behind him. So the truck is in the crossing. Now, if it was someone's car, they could
probably swing around the gate. But my question is this, if the truck was operational, and I don't know if it was okay, but if the truck was operational, why would the truck driver or anyone if you were in that situation and your car was somehow trapped between these two gates and all it is is just in arms comes down. That's a piece of wood or a piece of metal that comes down in front of you and behind you, why would you not at that point say
to yourself, well, I can't get around this. I'm not gonna sit here and allow my car on my truck to be demolished by this train. And of course you're not going through it the way I'm going through it. Now, it's like an instantaneous decision. I'm gunning it through the gate. I might damage my vehicle a little bit, I might damage the gate that has come down a little bit, but it's a lot better that those little damages be done. Whether it was the fault again of the driver in
this case or in any case. I'm not looking to blame the driver here. I have no idea who was at fault here. But what I'm saying is you're there, you're on the crossing, you see a quarter of a mile away or whatever, or you hear the train coming, get off the track. You'll you obviously, if for some reason your car has been can't move, well, you got to get out of the car. Okay. I analogize this too. How many times have you been in traffic on a road like Route nine. I'm not talking about one four
ninety five, but how long? How many times you've been out there on a road on Route nine and you hear the the ambulance siren behind you, you know, five hundred yards or a quarter of a mile or less than a quarter of a mile, or a fire truck or a police car, and you're in a red light and you're maybe the third car on the left hand side. You have nowhere to go. You've got two cars in front of you, you got a person to your right, and you got you can you can't go anywhere, and nobody moves.
Nobody moves even though there's an ambulance coming, and their mother could be in the back of that ambulance, or their sister, or their brother or their father, but they don't move. They freeze. And it's like maybe they don't hear the siren. Maybe I guess, maybe they have the radio on too loud. But the simple thing to do is to safely get through the red light and pull over or take a right at the red light wherever you are, just drive down the road and get out
of the way. We don't I've sat there so many times where you're blasting somebody on a horn. So my question is, here's the question. Do people not think? Do they freeze in terror because they don't know what to do? Or have they never even thought about this? Well, what would I do if I was that first car and the right side? What would I do? Would I sit there and make it difficult for the ambulance driver or the fire truck or the police car to get through?
What I just freeze? So I want to know from you, do you think people don't think, or do you think people freeze in terror? Or do you think they've never thought in advance. Well, if I'm driving sometime, what am I gonna do if there's an ambulance coming up behind me? Am I gonna race as fast as I can beat the ambulance. I don't think you should do that, Okay, am I gonna pull over and get out of the ambulance's way as safely as I can. I think that's a good idea. So I'm coming back now to the
train accident of yesterday. Let's assume you were stuck between these two gates. You're on the train track, you see the train coming. I'm blowing through that train. I'm blowing through that system. Okay, I'm taking that gate with me, all right, I am getting the hell out of the way. I hope you're doing the same thing. I want to hear from you. Have you ever been in that situation?
And what did you do? Have you ever been in a situation where you're sitting there and you've got an ambulance twenty cars behind you, and you you don't want to move because the lights were in I'm just gonna wait here till the light turns them. When the light turns green, I'll be able to go ahead. That is crazy. That is crazy. Someone's in that ambulance dying and you are preventing them from getting to a hospital. Use your head. Six one seven two five four ten thirty. That's the
only lines that is available right now. The other one is all full. So six one seven two five four ten thirty. I'm not blaming the truck driver. I have no idea what is sort of a situation he or she found themselves in. But if that truck could have moved, why not just blow through the gate. Okay, you're going to owe the town a couple thousand dollars to fix the gate. That's no big deal. I mean, that's just kind of a part of doing business here as far
as I'm concerned. If you don't get out of the truck, you'll be killed. If you get out of the truck and the and the train is pushing the truck down, you might be killed. Come on, people, wake up. No criticism of the truck driving. Don't know the circumstances. But I just thought to myself, if I'm in a situation like that and there's a gate, there's a gate that is blocking me from going forward, and there's a train
that's bearing down on me. I'm taking the gate out and guess what if they want to charge me, fine, I'll take the fine and I'll go in front of any judge where they have me up for destroying property of town property. We'll take a quick break on Nightside. If you think I'm crazy, tell me I'm crazy. If you agree with me, let's wake people up back on Nightside after.
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Let's go to the phone. It's gonna start off with Maureen and Winchester. Maureen, do you think I'm crazy on this?
Dan?
No, you're the voice of reason. You're never crazy.
Oh I wish youd Rob we should make that into a promo piece. I don't think we do promo pieces anymore, but thank you very much. Worried.
I think the problem is on the m bt A really I do, and I think they have a problem with the timing of the trains and the gates. Okay, when I've been hearing about this accident and other ones, I was almost missed meet this past h fall. Bye yep. By the uh my my heart is actually palpitating right now.
And when I relax, don't have a heart attack.
Okay, So what happened to me is I was driving on a street and the gates went down, A train went through the gates, then go up and the traffic is supposed to proceed right. I was proceeding, and my mother, who was raised on a farm in Iowa, said, always look to your left, to your right and your left, and don't gun it, and don't gun it over road, ruin the undercarriage. But also you never know somebody's hot dogging through a red light.
Right, So I did.
That, and I'm in the jeep starting in the gates. All of a sudden, ding ding ding ding. The gates are coming down, and I thought they were going to go right through my windshield wiper. I could not. I thought my heart was going to break open the shock of that. And I hit the brakes because I like, something's not right. If I had gunned it, I would have been are driven normally, I would have been dead.
I quickly hit the brakes. I thought, oh, good god, the gate's going to come through the windshield, shatter that. And I looked in behind me and there was a big school bus and they were driving very slowly, and I put it quickly in reverse. The gate went down and I was very shaken. Uh so I'll need several calls to the MBTA, to Keiolas and the response I got was that that is a timing if the gates, nobody tells you. I had a call probably six times
to get different department. I requested to talk to the head of Keolis who was at South Station. I eventually kicked us up to the Governor's office and they put me in touch with Emma, who's there handles these consumer issues. And I did ask her for a call back, and that was in December. The last time I heard I got to run around from Keolas. What they here's basically what they say is once the gates go up, you floor it over the tracks. And I said, uh, that
can ruin the undercarriage of the car. And he goes, well, we advise people to drive cautiously and drive fast when the gates go up. I said, well, I've had driven fast or normal, I would have been miss me. And that's why why do you think these turn these people are getting stuck on tracks. So what I got from another person when I called back at different levels, right, you get the operator, he gets the customer. Service and different departments.
Yeah, and plenty and they got plenty of people there, all of whom eventually just pass you from one to the other and they're all getting paid. I'm with you on that.
Yeah.
So the gate is supposed to go go down, and it's supposed to be down for thirty seconds before a train comes through.
Sure, then it's.
Supposed to go up. I said that gate went down. The outgoing train from Cambridge out went out, the gates went up. I was a patient driver. I'm going across and all of a sudden the gates almost trap me on the tracks, and so I was able to break it up and go back, and then the train went through. The gates for not are supposed to be down thirty seconds before the train then coming from the Burbs going into Cambridge.
Yeah, but what they shouldn't do is they shouldn't have the trains that close together. So in other words, you know, if the train that's right, Yeah, if the train has to slow down, and it's like it's like a regular stop sign. You know, if you come to a four full way stop and you have a green light or it turns yellow, you stop and you sit there for
thirty seconds or a minute or whatever it is. And then when it turns green, you should have you know, an equivalent amount of time to proceed through the intersection with in a car. You shouldn't like turn green and then go yellow right away and be red in two seconds. Sounds to me like the as you said, the gate came down, you stopped, the train went through, the gate went up, You start to go across, and the gate's coming back down in a matter of a few seconds. That's crazy.
And they told me that, Well, what somebody told me is that is probably timing. If we have a train that's earlier or later, that throws everything off. I said, well, then that's what people are getting killed on your tracks and injured. And I said that needs to be investigated. And you know, they say, how could an old couple get stuck on a track? Do they have to mention no.
Well the other one. Well the other thing too. That's like saying to air traffic control is well, we had a plane crash because the two planes collided, one ran into the other. Wait a second, you tell one of the planes go around and yeah, like, oh this is crazy. What have you ever been in traffic when there's an ambulance coming and nobody behind them knows what no one, no one knows what to do.
Yes, I I actually that happened to me just the other day, and and you know, you know what I was actually in. I had to go to Boston today and the other day. You know, it's like heart palpitations.
But uh well I get.
Heart palpitations going into Boston just from going to Boston. Don't worry about that. That's very normal, all right. I hate Marien, I love you called, but I got to run because I met my news breaking.
But you know, it's really aggravating some people. Actually, I saw a cargo right in front of an ambulance. I'm like, what a ding What a ding bat?
Yeah, well there's a lot of there's a lot of dingbats out there. They all weren't married to Archie Bunker. Hey, thanks Marie. Let you run.
He needs to take responsibility for this. They need a step up. And I'm going to call the Governor's office again tomorrow.
Good luck with that. Thanks, Thanks Mariy, love your call. Call again. Thanks you're a Greg Baller. Thanks talk to you later. Only line six. Here comes the news at the bottom of the hour. Let's get this going, and let's make people think that's what we're trying to do here Tonight at Nightside, it's night.
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I to go to Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie your next on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Dan.
How are you doing tonight, my friend?
I'm doing great, Bernie. I guess you can relate to what we're talking about.
Yeah, I am in my job capacity.
I have a lot of different tasks.
What I do.
I have a CDL and I at times drive a hazmat vehicle. And I would never pretend to try to imagine what happened to this driver today because I wouldn't want people second guests to me.
And by the way, let me make it clear, I'm not second guessing this guy. I'm just talking about if you found yourself between a couple of gates, and probably it's not your fault, what the hell are you do?
Well, here's the thing with a CDO vehicle. You can't shift going across train tracks. So you run for a dime, you run for a dollar, you hit the train tracks, you keep going there. You can't ship.
That's against the lock. So how did he come to a stop on the train tracks.
Well, what I'm saying to Bernie, Bernie, my question is this. Let's assume he starts across the train tracks and the gate comes down and he stops, and you know, it could be that the gate malfunction and twenty seconds later the go gate goes back up, No harm, no foul. But if the gate comes down and all of a sudden he hears that there's a train a quarter of a mile away, he done it.
To the gate, right, Well, yeah, if he's going through it, If he's going across the train tracks and the gates come down and he goes through that gate and knocks it down, he did what he was supposed to do. You're not supposed to ship on a train track. You know, it's supposed to come to a stop.
So he can I mean, at the end of the day he tells his this back to Hey, I was going across the tracks. You know legally, I cannot shift. I cannot stop. I went through the gate.
What's the word you use? Wait, you said I cannot I cannot legally did you say shift like down shift?
Yeah, you can't shift, but you know you can't shift crossing frame tracks with a CD.
Correct. Right, But but Bernie, I'm not a CDO guy, so I want to make sure I understand what you're saying. You're really saying you can't stop. You got to keep going. Correct in layman's language, you're saying you can't shift means you can't you know, shift down and stop, slow down. You got to keep going. Okay, I got it.
You gotta keep going. Yeah, yeah, And he's well with his rights. And then your cause damage that you know, that's between theolis and the.
And the company.
Okay, fair enough, All right, Well that explains that one.
But one other things.
And I was coming through Weymouth Landing today and a pickup and I see an ambulance coming up behind me, and people in the waymouth limb and land and seem to be shot on common sense or are common curtsy. And I see an ambulance, So I pull out two lanes. I pulled it up right, and there's someone an escalade behind me, pulls around me, keeps throwing and everyone out behind me pulled over to and he just started the right lane and kept going, and the ambulance got in the west lane and kept going.
Wow. Yeah, yeah, I mean Uh, you've been in situations where nobody moves and it's so frustrating you. You know, you hear the siren. I'm blasting my horn and people just they freeze, they panic.
They don't know what happened to me yesterday on eighteen by the south Shore Hospital when I put them into the level lane, the left hand lane, which was the oncoming traffic lane, to let the ambulance get through. I don't maybe the wrong decision, but the everyone's got through.
You gotta do what you got to do under those circumstances, says. It could be it could be your your child, it could be your family member, it could be a neighbor, whoever it is. It doesn't matter whether you know the person or not. That ambulance is trying to get someone to a hospital for medical attention, and that that has to be the priority. Bernie, thank you much. I appreciate you.
Call. Thank you Tobe.
He thanks much. Six one seven, got two lines at six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Let me go to Dave and wear them wear him.
Hey Dave, how are you good evening? Dan?
How are you doing great?
Uh?
What do you think about this dilemma that I have presented to you and the rest of my audience tonight.
Well, common sense, you know, that's what we got to have it. Come on, I mean you're going to that's only a wood barrier that comes down in front of you, you know, that's what I look at it.
Yeah, I don't care if it's a wood barrier. I don't care if it's metal or steel. I'm going through.
It looks wouldn't to me.
And if you have pretty lights sometimes on it. But believe me, there's a train coming. If you're not crashing through it, you ain't even know. I ain't driving with you, don't We'll have that straight all of my life if I'm with you.
So, how do you think that? So? So, Dave, how do you think that happened yesterday? I mean, I can see that the truck driver is on the tracks and both of the gates come down. But you hear the train whistle or you know you're on a train track. You look, you must see something get off?
You know anything about that driver himself?
No? No, And I don't want it in any way, shape or form, calling to question his judgment.
Yeah, right, but we're all, well, this is it. You heard what I said, and that's me, you know, come on.
What about what about the Yeah, what I'm saying is people freeze. I'm not saying the guy froze or anything. Who knows what happened. I wasn't there, But I have been in situations where you're on you know, a two lane road like a Route nine or I don't know, you know the VFW Parkway one of those roads where where it's heavily trafficked, and you hear an ambulance in behind you, you know, two hundred yards and you look
at all the cars. Nobody moves. Somebody sitting at a red light, It's like they cantle through a red light. What are they think they're going to do? Get written up by a cop? Pull over, get out of the way, let the ambulance through.
Well, I can tell you the truth, Dan, I goes. I drive a lot, you know, living and whatnot.
But yeah, I.
Run into that six to eight times a year. That's how many times I run under that. And what do you think I do.
Through the light?
I see, of course, you know what I mean. And then I and I look him back, give me to see what's going on, and then I'm gone. I'm going through it.
I don't care.
Well, obviously, you want to, you want to make sure that you're not going to t bone somebody going through the light. But if if the traffic is if the traffic's too heavy, the traffic's too heavy, and and you're in a light, hook a right, you know, get get out of the way. If you've got to go up and turn around. You know, we all have GPS. Now you get back on the main road, it won't be that difficult. But I just see people freeze. I think
some people got a headset on. They're listening to music and they're rocking out and they don't know what's going on.
You know, you got Dave's permission. Away here, go through the damn light. Get the hell out of the way, no matter what the cost.
Couldn't agree with you more, Dave, You're you're my sort of guy. You're my sort of guy. Hey, thank you for joining us, keep it keep it going here, you call it again? Okay. I really enjoyed the call. I love your sense of humor. Thanks, thank you.
Wait, yeah, yeah, good night.
Six one seven two one six one seven two five four ten thirty or six one seven nine three one ten thirty. Look, all of us have seen it. I'd like to hear from you. Tell me what you would do. I mean, if there's anyone out there who's going to say to me, well, there's a red light, I'm going to stop and wait till the red light turns. You're in. You're a jerk, okay, so call him, call me up and I'll call you a jerk to your face. Get
out of the way. If it's an ambulance, it's a fire truck, it could be your house on fire, simple as that. And I want to come back to the to the to the crash. First of all, I think that the trains. There better be a better system out there for the trains. It's as simple as that. Let me get one more in here before the break. Going to go to John in Middleborough. Hey John, you're next
one nightside. Welcome night Dan. Thanks, let me be here absolutely, So what's your thought on both of these dilemmas that I have that I've talked about? One the vehicle on the track, do you do you smash through the gate? I smashed through the gate.
Absolutely, drive through them. In many cases they're made to break. I got it. I work for am tracked about fifteen and a half years now. Okay, and information on the crossing gate. Yes, the mechanism that control does not pull them down.
It allows them.
To fall by grabbing. When they're down, they can easily be lifted by hand and traffic control through or escape train.
Sure, but if you don't have time, I mean, if all of a sudden you see a train a couple hundred yards away, don't try to get out of the car and quietly walk over, you know, get through the get off the track.
Through the gate if you can, assuming that's not traffic right on the other side of the gate.
You got it.
But although if you get the spctor on a cropping, well whatever. We virtually every great crossing in the United States has at least one blue signs with white letter has a poultry numbers called it dispector or trains on that line.
Oh okay, the name of.
The crossing and the number of the crossing. So they called the fact there's a problem stop any approaching credits.
That's great information. I did not know that.
Yeah, take a look next time we go over acrossing.
I will, I will, you know, I'll bettion. There'd be some some people who'll be going over crossing tomorrow thinking about John from Middleborough. Great advice, John. That's what I love about my audience. There's always smarter people in my audience than me, who knows more about a specific subject. Thank you so much for joining us. That's very helpful, very helpful.
Thank you, Mek you soon, Thanks John, Thank you much.
Got to take a break. One line at six one seven two four ten thirty. Got one line at six one seven ninety. We're coming right back if you want to get in dial now because we have a guest coming up at ten. I'm not carrying this over. This has been a great topic. Let's keep it rolling. Coming right back on Nightside.
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Back. We got great calls, Let's keep rolling. Going to try to get them all in Ron and Stoat and run next on nights.
How How are you Dan? Longtime, no talk to uh. I just want to say this about that accident yesterday. First of all, I did a lot of train safety programs at toy train shows. I'm a big train fanatic, and there's the one thing I've always said to people, especially kids, stop, look and listen I drive a truck, and I know when you stop. I saw the films on this. This guy went around the gates and he was cited for doing. If you watch the films, he deserves to be cited. He could have caused more than
a major accident. You don't forget it takes a long time to stop a train, whether it's going thirty miles an hour or fifty miles an hour, whether it's passenger or a freight. He was wrong, and but we do need to have four way gates at all crossings. You know, he made a stupid decision. And like you said earlier, it's the same type of people that won't pull over for an ambulance or a fire engine or a police car. And people have to be more aware of what they're doing when they're driving.
You bet you, you bet you. Safety for safety for yourself and safety for everyone else, and safety right person in the back of that ambulance because their life is in jeopardy.
Maybe that's right, and also safety for the engineer of that train.
Sure, absolutely absolutely, you know, run great points, great points. I got back lines trying to get right.
I wanted to get my two cents for it then and it was.
Something like you got more than two cents in call anytime. Okay, thanks Ron, thank you for talk again. Thanks much. Good night. Let me go to Paul and Weymouth. Paul you next one nights. I go right ahead.
Hey Dan, big fan, how are hey? Listen? That guy who that guy who called from Weymouth. He says, you can't shift on the track. Well, first of all, all the trucks are automatic now, so there's there's no shifting. I've been driving CDL forty five years and I've been driving automatic for three years and I still reach for the clutch.
Old habits die hard. So what would have you done if you were that on that track?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
I saw it, I saw the video. I'd go through it, but I don't know. If it's I don't know, if I don't know, if he's stalled or what happened, I don't know. But as far as shifting, look, they said all the trucks are automatic, so there's only whatever. But to get to your point about people not stopped and the ambulances.
You know that rule for.
Slow down or pull over for a stalled vehicle on the highway, Yes, sure. So I'm in my eighteen wheeler. I pull over to the center lane to go buy an accident or break down or whatever it may be. And I go to pull I go to pull back into the right lane, and there's somebody passing me. It happened long. They just don't I don't know what they're thinking, you know, So.
They're thinking this smarter than you are. And one thing I found out about long haul truck drivers is they know what they're doing. Okay, so give them plenty of room.
Well that's that's all I want to tell you. Was like I go to pull over. When I go to pull back, somebody's passing me on the right. It's like, you got it, you got it.
Everybody's looking at that little itch. Hey, Paul is always thanks so much for the call. Appreciated. We'll talk again.
Okay, Thanks Jim, thank you, Thank you.
Be safe. Steve is in Rockland. Steve, you're next night's IM gonna get you and at least a couple more in Go ahead, Steve d Yes, sir, Dan, can you hear me here? You perfectly go right ahead?
Okay, thank you for taking my call.
You're welcome.
I just want to let you know here in Brockton. I don't know who designed it, who's responsible, but we have the train come to Brockton and we always have the the the the the English.
The gate.
We don't have any. All we have is bridges and tunnels. There are no gates in Brockton.
You want to be safe, come on, good idea.
Okay, I think they got to go around and everywhere there's a gate, they should put a bridge or a tunnel.
Okay, Well that's gonna take a lot of work, but I think it's a great idea. It's certainly a lot safer if that's not bad idea. Do you pull over when an ambulance is coming up behind you're a fire truck or a police officer?
I hope we haven't referred to as the intersection from hell right here and brogh when you give it from when you first get off. Yeah, just just just just yesterday, I heard the siren and there's thousands of cars. You cannot tell where it's coming from. This it's not you can't really blame the person in front of me, but I heard them and I know where they usually come down Pleasant Street.
White pulled up to the right and.
Nobody else did.
It's crazy.
So it has to do with your your ability, I think to perceive where the siren noise is actually coming from. I got your directional hearing.
But still your instinct is to find a way to get out of it. You got to pull into a gas station, pull into a gas stage, if you got to pull into a parking lot, clear the road, let the let the emergency vehicle through.
That should be the rule, idea.
That's right. I got two more of you to thank you, Steve. Let me go to Sandra in Carver. Sandra, I got one you and one more. Go ahead, Sandra, Okay.
Real quick. I just want to say when I was a kid, they used manned men at the crosswalk. Every crossing there was a guy. Today it's all computerized and they're always sailing now. I was coming down Route fifty eight to go to Rochester one night to dog training. I usually look both ways. I don't know if I did that night, but when I went to cross there was no lights, no gate went down, total malfunction. I look and there was a train, so I just kept I just kept on moving, and when I got to
a phone, I called it in. They said, oh, Yeah, we knew we have a problem there. Well, why wasn't there a cruiser or somebody there? Yeah, to control the situation?
How much? How close was it that the train missed you? Obviously?
How well?
It was was night and all I could see was the great, big, huge light.
You know. But I'm quit you had a.
Guardian angel on your shoulder that night.
Sandra, Right, Well, I think I do all the time anyway. And also just to say this, I worked as a nurse at night and for a while, for a three year period, I also did the ambulance for the town. Yes, I was an empty so I had some of that experience. But most times people do pull over for you. But I think lately, through whatever reason, everybody's getting cocky. They don't pull.
Over like they use it.
I think a lot of people got the music on the radio or the ear or the earphones on. They don't hear it, or they're not paying attention, or they're just dumb. They're absolutely dumb. I can use a stronger word, but I'll just say dumb. And they think that that for them to get to wherever they're going is the most important thing in the world. Although somebody may be dying an ambulance ten cars behind them, simple as that.
Right, well, but anyway that.
Could be too absolutely, thanks Andrew, talk to you soon.
Okay, thank you, bye.
Well, I won more before ten. It's Robert and Wellesley. Robert, you're gonna wrap us up. I got about a minute, go ahead, Robert.
Okay, yeah, stop, look lessen. A lot of people at the railroad crossing, A lot of people aren't aware of that role. Also as you as you know, also emergency lights on passenger cars tend to be underused. So to prevent being rear ended, if you stop, look and listen by the railroad track, I suggest putting on the emergency lights.
Then.
Also, if there's an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance approaching, you don't know where they're coming from. I also we suggest using emergency lights again, making people around you aware that you're aware of the siren approaching, and you're making to right.
All great points. Robert. I used to tell my kids when they went back to school, we do we take a little walk a couple of days before going back to school when they were in elementary school and things like that, and I would say, look, listen and learn. So that's kind of the same thing you're saying in terms of driving.
Right.
Hey, Robert, thank you as always, I enjoy your calls. Thanks very much, we'll talk again. Thank you so much.
Thank you, good night, good night.
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