On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 23:08:58 UTC+1, John Albert  wrote:   
      
   > Aside:   
   > Sometimes grade separations won't even help. Some years' back, an Amtrak   
   > eastbound was coming up through the Bronx on the Hell Gate Line. At that   
   > location, the tracks were down in a cut, the street up above. Somebody   
   > drove a car right off the street, through the fence, and it landed in   
   > front of the train. I think the driver actually survived, came down   
   > between the catenary and all!   
      
   Look up the Great Heck train crash.  Driver fell asleep at the wheel, his   
   vehicle left the motorway and ended up on the railway line.  An express train   
   hit his land rover, derailed, and was hit by a coal train coming the other way.   
      
   Robin   
      
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