The other night I was going to bed (late as usual) and I was watching TV for a few minutes (as I do before I try to get some sleep) and there was this show hosted by Sheriff John Bunnell about cars getting hit by trains. There were lots of clips of vehicles (including big lorries) stuck on railway tracks getting ploughed into by big freight trains (American locomotives are all big blocky things). I mean what are the odds of your car just happening to stop over tracks? And doesn't it occur to anyone to get out and push? And then they showed clips of people trying to race over the crossing instead of stopping and waiting for the train to pass, only missing being hit by a second or two. Bunnell said that roughly 400 people a year in America die through trying this kind of thing, I mean even though that's a tiny percentage of the population, it still sounds like a lot!