At a crossroads

I read an article about a woman being saved from an oncoming train by a police officer. The interview included a blow by blow from the hero officer. As I got further into the report I realized that the woman who was saved was really very silly. The officer, in his patrol car on break, watched from across the intersection as this lady's car intentionally stopped on the tracks. According to the owner of the car, she was lost in an unfamiliar city and had stopped to figure out where she was. Her first mistake: stopping on railroad tracks. After a minute, the officer, knowing that the Amtrak passenger train came through at about that time of night, approached the women in the car. It took him several attempts to persuade her to exit her vehicle. According to him, she was not fully aware of the danger she was in. Her second mistake: not listening to the police officer.

Only moments later, the Amtrak train barreled into her abandoned vehicle pushing it down the tracks causing it to burst into flames. A few of the passengers were treated with oxygen after breathing in the gas fumes from the explosion and all the passengers were delayed five and half hours waiting for another engine.

It's a good thing someone was thinking clearly that night. A little common sense could have avoided the situation all together. Sheesh!