When two trains collide, especially if they are traveling rather fast, the damage can be extensive. If a freight train crashes head-on with a passenger train at a fairly rapid speed, there are bound to be serious injuries and even deaths. Twisted metal and injured and dead passengers may be strewn over a large area of land.
When two trains on the same track are headed toward each other, it goes without saying that someone managing the flow of train traffic made a major mistake. Or warning lights that would have alerted the conductor or engineer to stop and wait for the other train to pass may not have been working properly or the train employees were preoccupied and did not see them. A passenger train is considered a “common carrier” and as such owes its passengers the highest duty of skill and care so as to ensure its passengers are not injured in any way.
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