"The fact is that news did say the train sounded the horn a lot
of times and did try to stop (brake and slow down) but the couple
did not budge..."
The news didnt say anything about the train sounded the horn
LOTS OF TIMES however it was told that "It is believed that the
train driver had signalled to both of them to move away from the
track"
And no part of the news says the train did try to slow down.
From the New Paper: Linkie
WHAT began as an uneventful and sleepy start to the day
turned into a traumatic experience for a train driver.
Guiding his empty train from Singapore to Johor Baru where
it was to begin its service yesterday morning, he saw to his horror
two teenagers sitting on the railway track in front of
him.
He immediately blew his whistle to alert them and get them
to move away.
When Mr Goh Sheng Yao, 19, and Miss Clara Lee Jing Yu, 20,
failed to heed the train driver's warning, he applied the brakes -
to no avail.
This is because a moving train takes about 400m before it
can come to a full halt. .
So the driver had to watch helplessly and in horror as the
train mowed down the couple in front of him.
There you go. The driver sounded his whistle, and then applied
the brakes ASAP. Sounds like reasonable procedure to me. Do you
know Newton's 1st Law and what it says about inertia? You know how
much inertia a moving train has and its minimum stopping distance
to prevent derailment? Do you know Newton's 2nd Law and what it
says about the train's momentum and resultant force applied on the
couple on the tracks?
But never mind the train. The truth is that they just have no
business sitting on the tracks of an active railway line. Do you
know that KTM train toilets empty out onto the track? That is to
say, after you do your business in the toilet bowl and you flush,
it all goes down onto the tracks?
Combine that with all the dust, smoke, diesel fumes, darkness at
5.24 am, and the very real threat of getting langgar-ed by a
high-momentum, high-inertia train.... what business do they have
sitting on the tracks?!?!
