Driver Billed After Being Hit By Train

The Hartford Courant reported that a driver of a car that was stuck by a Metro-North train on Sunday, May 29 was billed for the damages the car caused to the train. Yes you read that correctly. A Metro-North spokesperson said, "the train was where it was supposed to be, and the car was not." Thus putting the blame of the accident on the diver of the car, a 40 year old woman who was driving with her 7 year old daughter. The family was enjoying a picnic near what is designated as a private crossing (crossings that do not have a gate or flashing lights, but trains are still required to blow their horn when crossing). A family that lives near the crossing said that they did not hear a horn before the crash, and they had complained about the trains horn not sounding before. Metro-North said that the horn had sounded. The 40 year old woman and her daughter were injured but nothing life threatening. The 100 passengers about the train were not injured but arrived late to their destination. Be safe, always look both ways when crossing a rail road so that accidents like this don't happen again.