Cell Phone Blamed for Train Death

Last year in Redwood City, about 20 miles southwest of Berkeley, a man was hit by a CalTran train while on his cell phone. He waited for a train to pass and walked on the tracks where a train going in the opposite direction hit and killed him. I think you must have been thinking of this accident. People waiting for trains at this station said they yelled at him to stop, but he obviously didn't hear them. Quite sad.

These trains! LET'S BAN TRAINS. They have killed how many people?

Well if you're too dumb to use enough common sense to hang up the damn phone when crossing the train tracks, then you deserve to die. One day while I was driving, I saw some woman talking on the phone while crossing the street. What's worse, she had her kids with her! They almost got killed because she was too busy running her damn mouth instead of protecting them. Seriously, what the hell kind of conversation was she having that was so important that she had to put her life, worse yet her kids' lives in jeopardy?? And why blame the cell phone for this guy's death? Did the cell phone push the man onto the tracks? I think not. It's time people started taking responsibility for their own actions. If he had paid attention to where he was going, this would never have happened. The phone didn't kill him, his stupidity killed him.

I guess it's true; the stupid ones die first.

Common sense tells you to watch what you are doing when crossing railroad tracks. Had he been paying attention to his surroundings, he would still be alive. And the cell phone didn't kill him, his stupidity did. Why can't people take responsibility for their own actions?

Stupid is as stupid does. What in the world can be so important that dimwits, nitwits, dummb ass, nincompoop moron Americans cannot put the stupid cell phone down while driving or crossing the railroad tracks on foot or in the car ?????? Americans - get a life without the stupid cell phones. A life is a terrible thing to lose because of a stupid, stupid, phone call. A life you save might just be yours !!!!

I thought it was a cell phone growing on peoples heads.

Well this isn't the first death from talking on the cell phone, and it won't be the last. EACH and every time someone almost hits me while driving, you guessed it...THEY ARE ON THE CELL PHONE. lol So this does not surprise me... Talk away people, talk away. Dumm dumm need summ gumm gumm?

Darwinism at its finest.

It was not the only the cell phones fault. First of all there should be a blocking at every train crossing, to make sure no one is able to even set foot that close to the train!!! And that's that! People should not be able to accidentally walk on the tracks. Where are the guarding rails when you need them?

No one has a right to call we Americans, nitwits, dumb-asses or any other nasty name. If you don't like my America, go back to wherever you came from.

Wonder if the person on the other end thought it was a dropped call.Dumbass people.Oh,I'm gonna talk while crossing the train tracks,then talk while taking a dump, then I will call you while I have sex.

Hope, I am sure everyone in your country is so much smarter, I mean you proved it by your ignorant narrow mind. Then we have Nilla, do you live in bubble? I don't want to because we have people that can't walk and chew gum at the same time. I am smart enough not to try and cross the train tracks while a train is coming. Neither of these talking while walking incidents should have happened, but neither of them had to do with the phone. The people were just not very smart, they probably grew up in the bubble that Nilla lives in. Kept them safe until that fateful day when they decided to cross the train tracks!

A note to Vivi (one of the participants in this discussion): The word "dumba__" is filthy and unnecessary. Before you tell people to go back where they came from, perhaps you should first go to charm school. (Respectfully submitted without name-calling or filthy language, but an instruction in just plain decency instead . . . .)

whoever invented the cell phone should have it stuck up their ass and they should ban the damn thing

Susan~
I can appreciate what you are saying, but if you notice, ViVi was simply quoting another post.

yes, many people here in the states are very stupid, but what can you expect from the education system we have here? and i am not from somewhere else, from here and can speak to my own opinion as i see fit. that of course is whats called "Free speach" supposedly what we are fighting for in Iraq and Afganistan?? or is that just excuse number #20 as to why they invaded another country who had nothing to do with 9/11?

Ok guys...The train killed this idiot not the cell phone. If you aren't smart enough when walking railroad tracks to be cautious

The most important thing in cases like this is to STOP telling people that the cell phone caused the accident. Put the blame where it belongs.

Gee, I guess that when people say they are paying more attention when they are using their cell phones theory, this just put that myth to rest. YOU CAN'T DO IT!!!!!!!

Well go back to whatever country you come from then Hope. And if your American then God bless us all that people like you look down on your own country but seem to hide everyday under the protection and freedom your country provides. Sick.