I was walking towards my house, the way I always do, and went to cross the tracks when I tripped and hit my head on the ground rendering me unconscious.
I didn't wake up, that is until the train hit me.I started to scream at the top of my lungs immediately when i was hit, when the front of the train shattered my knees.
Luckily i was in a position between both of the rails, so I didn't get any limbs cut off.
Suddenly the Train was completely over me, The train was going 50 MPH with a foot between the ground and speeding steel, with me in between.
Immediately i tried to protect my head, so i get one of my elbows and lift it up to cover my head but hit the bottom of the train, instantly i tried my other arm without thought and i broke that arm too.
I started to scream while I was under the train but realized it was useless because the train was so loud and windy. nobody can here me, so I became silent.
All of my limbs were broken while I was under a Freight Train, unable to do nothing but turn my neck; trying not to hit my head, while looking for what's to come.
After 5 minutes i tried to remain calm and wait for the rest of the train to pass me.
I either thought this is the begginging of a dream or the beginning of Death. It is difficult to explain what i was happening.
When atlas the train past me, I could not move my legs because they were broken, I could not move my arms to reach in to my pocket for a cell phone because both my elbows and wrist were broken and most frightening, I could not roll off the Train Tracks to avoid the next on coming Train.
I began to scream again hoping someone could here my cries from the tracks.
Where a man heard my cries 1500 feet away.
Horrific Accident: I got hit by a train and Survived, Fl
By digiorgio88@gma... - Posted on February 6th, 2008
Whoa. Scary. Is this real?!
If so, you should post more of the story, perhaps in a continuation. It would be interesting to see the conclusion.
But wow....I can' t even imagine going through that. All the power to you.
Holy fuck. .........It takes a lot to reduce me to so few words, and you've done it. this is staggering. What's the rest of the story?
Michael Allen Yarbrough (PBUH)
I would be very interested in seeing a source for this story, i.e., a newspaper article.
Oh, and how exactly did the train hit your knees? If you fell, your knees would be level with your head, so the train would smash your entire body basically. Also, if you were crossing the tracks, you would've fallen vertically over the tracks so your body crossed them. Strange that the train didn't stop. Interesting.
I assume you are now in a wheelchair or using prosthetic limbs since your legs have been utterly shattered?
I could try to come up with some answers to these questions, but they're for the author, not me. I can, however, answer one.
Why didn't the train stop? Because trains need to gain an immense amount of momentum to move and keep moving. Since it's so difficult to get a train going at a fast rate of speed, and that takes some time, then slowing down is no different. A train cannot fully stop. This is why there are so many accidents involving trains hitting cars or people. Think of them as the tractor trailers. They can't slow down immediately either.
I meant, why did it not stop AFTER it hit her? Supposedly she had to scream to get help from a long ways away.
Imagine 100 semi tractors lined up and connected. Now imagine them going 50 mph. Try to stop it with a human body... it'll take a couple miles for that to happen. A human is also pretty small compared to the train, so it's possible the conductor just... didn't see, and thus would have no reason to stop.
~C
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I doubt the conducter wouldn't see, a human body lying on rails is pretty obvious.
Also, by the time help would've arrived from thousands of feet away, someone on the train would've been getting help.
My knees were not flat, they were at an bent at an angle, at the moment of impact, and I was walking on the tracks for a minute.
I can walk now. My legs are not prothetic but i must go through immense therapy and rehabilitation for my motion in my arms and legs to get back the wat they were.
You must've collapsed unconcious in a remarkable way. You would've had to fall straight on your back, with your knees bent at precisely the correct angle that they would hit the train. AND you landed right BETWEEN the tracks. I dunno, I've seen unconcious people and they never have their knees bent at such an angle, how odd.
Wouldn't your legs have been completely torn off at the knee, which such force hitting them? How is it possible to walk on knees that were entirely 100% shattered?
Again, is there a news story about this?
How much distance is there between each wheel on each side of the train? About four feet. Average human shoulders - about 18 inches. So you'd have to fall in more or less a perfectly straight line. Since your knees were upward, you'd be on your back. I find it extremely hard to believe that you were in such an unusual position for an unconcious person - lying in precisely the position you'd lie in if you were sunning yourself.
ONE rail car usually weighs between 30 to 140 TONS. You probably were hit by over a thousand tons if not more. All that force right to your knees... and you're able to walk? In fact, you have real legs?
How did your arms break? They weren't hit by the train, after all... so either they'd be sliced off by the wheels or unharmed. Or utterly shattered and possibly torn off as your knees would've been.
I am veeery doubtful. Who falls BACKWARDS when they just HAPPEN to be on the traintrack, hits their head with enough force to knock them out, and then lie in a fairly impossible unconcious position UNTIL a train hits their knees, somehow without ripping their legs off, and breaks their arms, somehow without hitting them? O.o
I thought there was something off with the whole thing....
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
Benjamin Franklin
For the general record... there's a lot of difference between 18 inches and 48 inches. Though I haven't been to a train track in many years, I find it hard to believe that a small child could fit between the tracks of a train (the 4 feet you cite).
~C
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...I looked all over but only got four feet. I could've SWORN it was less than that. It's like a foot across. If you agree with me... w00t! Now we know this story is bs.
dude, you say bullshit!!! if you ever been under train and tried to pull up your arms to protect your head (of what???) and as result got hit into elbows then you'd be trailed by force of moving train and it will suck you under wheels! (sorry, i have poor physics english to briefly describe the whole thing)