Why were they on the bridge? Glad that no one was hurt, but the stupidity of some people just amazes me.
Evedently it was in a rural area like Indiana, where there are no roads, nor other bridges ... one must stop, look, listen ... and have his/her RR tie hoppin' shoes on, in order to quickly run the length of a 500' long bridge, that has no emergency escapements off to the side, before a high speed train comes along, (Note: fat people can not lie in the gauge, and not get all balled up in the running gear, as a train passes over top of them) !
Two Indiana women are lucky to be alive after they were run over by a 14,000-ton coal train when they found themselves trapped on a railroad bridge.
Incredible video footage from and Indiana Railroad locomotive shows the women laying down in the middle of the tracks. The train, which has a mere ten inches of clearance above the railroad ties, miraculously passed harmlessly over top of them.
After the train finally stopped, both women stood up and ran away. One of the women shouted at the engineer that she had a stubbed toe, Indiana Railroad spokesman Eric Powell told MailOnline.
The women had been walking along Shuffle Creek Trestle Bridge, a narrow railroad bridge 80 feet above a creek bed outside Bloomington, Indiana, at 6.30 am on July 10.