OMG—Train collides with a crashed plane just 2 seconds after @LAPDFoothill police pull the pilot from the wreckage earlier today. The bystander who recorded this was nearly hit by large flying debris. LAPD officer’s body cam further below👇—amazing heroism 🙏
https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1480363436311670784
2) here is the LAPD body cam of the harrowing rescue just before the train hit.
https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1480363436311670784
3) I’m am curious - why didn’t the train have time to be warned to slow down? The police seemed to have had time to put up yellow police barrier tape across the street. Maybe there wasn’t a direct line to the conductor? I’m asking as a kid who grew up near train tracks.
4) Notably, when I was in middle & high school, I walked home over train tracks daily. Once, a train was parked on the track, and as we went under the train🚊—it started moving over us. We dodged out from under the train just in time before the wheels moved too fast to jump thru.
5) my friends and I had crossed under parked trains dozens of times, and didn’t think much of it. But that harrowing time—it was a sudden jolt of movement that shook the train above us, as it then proceeded to move. We froze at first…
6) But two of us had to decide quickly whether to stay under the train and lay down or whether to jump between the wheels. The trains cars carried coal and had space under—but we were worried about a rear engine train (no clearance under the train). So we decided to jump for it—
7) …we luckily jumped between the wheels before they were rolling too fast. We stood to the side of the train watching it pass…. And indeed there was a rear train engine in the caboose. So, our split second decision to jump out early was thankfully the correct decision. Whew 😰
8) when I was a kid—we lived too close to the high/middle school ‘as the crows fly’ to have school bus 🚌 service—hence we took shortcut to walk over the train tracks to save ~12 minutes. But it was a hidden trail that had no marked pedestrian crossing. Please kids don’t do it!🙏 
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