[kellyhound]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WLS) -- Two trespassers narrowly escaped on a rail bridge, according to the Indiana Rail Road Company (INRD), as a 14,000-ton freight train approached near Lake Lemon, Ind.

Video shows the women walking on a 500-foot-long, 80-foot-high bridge known as Shuffle Creek on July 10 at 6:50 a.m. They are shown running away from the train as the engineer applies the brakes to slow the 14,000-ton freight train down from 30mph, and sounds his horn.

"The engineer followed all appropriate protocols, immediately applying an emergency brake application and repeatedly sounded the horn. However, as the subjects ran toward the opposite end of the viaduct, the engineer was helpless to do more. The ever-slowing train was still catching up to the fleeing trespassers," according to a statement from the Indiana Rail Road.

Railroad tracks are private property, Indiana Rail Road officials remind the public. In this case, the engineer rounded the bend in the tracks to see the women. One of them almost falls trying to run to the end of the bridge. With the train just 30 feet away, they both eventually lie down between the tracks, and the train passes over them.

The train engineer assumed both women were dead, as the train came to stop past the point where they had lay down. However, both trespassers survived, escaped to a nearby vehicle and fled the scene, INRD said.

"In this case, not only did two trespassers narrowly escape a horrible death, but had the heavy train derailed due to the emergency brake application - which isn't uncommon - it could have taken down the bridge, possibly killing the engineer as well," said INRD president Tom Hoback. "The human, environmental and financial toll would have been enormous."

The INRD says that local law enforcement has identified the trespassers. It is not clear if criminal charges will be filed.

Lake Lemon is 10 miles northeast of Bloomington, Ind.

[Drumstickshredder]

Holy shitting fuck

[biglarry]

I hope they didn't drop the comb.

[MeMyselfandI]

Reminds me of Stand By Me

[deanmine]

[jdankens]

Stupid cunts I hope they get prison time

[adhartz]

Follow up. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2...call/13599203/ "BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Prosecutors filed criminal charges Monday against two women who they say were caught on video surviving a close call with a freight train while walking across a trestle 80 feet high in southern Indiana.

Misdemeanor railroad trespassing charges were filed in Indiana's Monroe County Circuit Court against Stacey June Smith, 37, of Bloomington and Wendy Gayle Timothy, 34, of Pensacola, Florida.

"We received the case this morning from the sheriff's office. We reviewed it and determined that charges were appropriate," Monroe County Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Kehr said.

A video shows two women on a bridge over Lake Lemon northeast of Bloomington on July 10 as the 100-car coal train weighing 14,000 tons bears down on them. The engineer activated the train's emergency brakes when he saw the women, who first began to run and then lay down on the tracks moments before the train passed over them with just 10 inches of clearance, according to the newspaper.

Monroe County Sheriff's Office Capt. Troy Thomas said officers tracked the women down from a Florida license plate on the vehicle in which they fled the scene on the morning of July 10.

Detective Jennifer Allen said Timothy acknowledged the two had been on the trestle taking photographs that morning, but no camera was found at the scene.

"We have been unable to verify that is what they were doing. But they were running for their lives, so they may have dropped anything like that," Thomas said.

The two will be summoned to appear in court. If convicted, they could face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Court records showed neither had an attorney. A telephone message seeking comment was left for Timothy. Smith doesn't have a published telephone listing.

Indiana Rail Road Co. said that trespassing on rail tracks, which are private property, resulted in 38 deaths in Indiana last year."

[dirty ike]

Holy crap ,38 deaths, does everyone in Indiana play on the damn tracks?

[oreon333]

ummm impressive, creative... stuuuupid

[Pyramid_Head]

Yea walk on a bridge with nowhere to go if a train comes along.