Horrifying video footage had captured the moment Yareni Rios was detained in a cop car parked on tracks in Platteville in September 2022 — with the officers seemingly oblivious to a fast-approaching locomotive repeatedly blaring its horn. Finally, a female officer notices, gasping, “Oh my God, oh my God!” [More]
How?
The same thing happened years ago in the neighboring town, a teenager was killed when her friend ignored the flashing lights and tried to drive around the lowered gates. The bureaucratic solution was to spend millions on a bridge and erect a sign naming it after the victim, which one friend pegged the “I’m with Stupid” bridge.
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Most places in the country things get a chance to spread out. But South Florida’s inhabitable developable land is all between the Atlantic to the east and wetlands if not easily flooded areas to the west.
As a result, you find I-95, US-1, US-441, and a major freight and passenger rail line all crammed into a narrow urban core that stretches unbroken from Palm Beach County down to Miami.
“Interactions” between trains, motorists, and pedestrians are all too commonplace.