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JHB

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7. You'd have to know what kind of accident you were going to have...

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 01:14 PM

Dec 2013

...which obviously presents a problem.

Trains hit things in front, get hit from behind, sometimes get sideswiped, sometimes the front cars in a derailment are the ones that stay on the track, and sometimes they get thrown around from the momentum of the ones behind.

No one simple answer.

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