She’s a peach. You’re a lucky man. 
I still think it was a suicide attempt
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The railroad involved was Norfolk Southern. They are excellent at defending themselves in situations like this. The train had an outward facing camera that contradicts Hughes’ attorney’s chain of events. The crossing was in compliance with federal regulations, the engineer operated the train within rule. Hughes was on his cell phone, and drove into the crossing without stopping.
A sad outcome, but this is his fault.
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All public crossings at grade are regulated and horn use is required unless proper devices are put in place to prevent vehicles from entering the crossing when active.
This didn’t happen at a private crossing (i.e. where the line bisects a farmer’s filed, and horn use is required only when someone is visibly near the crossing).
NS is an extremely strict company, and would’ve quickly settled with the Hughes’ and fired the engineer if the railroad was at fault.
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you just have to be smarter than your opponent.
Tyson is smart, LeBron is a fucking moron.
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Unprotected crossings are usually private crossings… the class 1 I work for has removed as many as possible just to stay out of litigation… if any of the signage is off at all the railroad is usually found at fault after years of litigation… I agree dude was 100% in the wrong or the railroad would have had to pay. My coach is one of the OG Militech guys and Hughes is an arrogant dickhead I never heard one good story about him.
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60 tons of coal. Probably more like 10-20,000 tons.
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" The train was only going about 39 miles an hour but I think it was carrying like 60 tons of coal so it wasn’t going to slow down with that load.”
60 tons of coal fits in one railcar.
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This. 286,000 lbs max weight car and load. Few people realize just how heavy a train can be.
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I see I was beaten to this point.
Maybe he’s referring to what landed directly on his head.
“I will try and explain… I was helping a farmer and I was taking diesel to a tractor and filling the tractor in the back of his truck. I had diesel and DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid), which is a diesel mixture. I was in the country going across a railroad track. At the time, the corn was up, so I couldn’t see the railroad track well. And there was no cross sign or lights, it’s just a yellow sign. So, it was a bad angle… you can’t see the track at all. Terrible angle… I was just going to fill his tractor and got hit,” Matt Hughes said.
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Where the corn?
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What am I looking at here?
All I see is corn.
Corn, corn, corn, everywhere corn.
Corny post, I know.
You spelled porn wrong.
There’s a train crossing on an incline in my town and as teenager’s we would try to jump it (not super fast cause we were pussies).
These fucking dumb ass city boys don’t understand that crops are seasonal…
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