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Courageous cop averts train crash
NEW YORK -- A Long Island policeman might not be more powerful than a
locomotive, but his quick thinking and bravery was enough to stop one, a report
said Thursday. Suffolk County Police Officer Robert Coffman was on patrol in
his patrol car late Wednesday morning when a motorist called 911 and reported a
tree down on the Long Island Railroad tracks. Coffman got there quickly and saw
the large tree to his left, and the distant lights of an approaching commuter
train on his right. When the crossing gates started coming down, Coffman
flipped on his flashing lights and parked his car in the middle of the tracks.
The motorman hit the brakes, which Coffman could hear screeching, and managed
to stop in time. The motorman told Coffman he wouldn't have been able to stop
and the train carrying 70 commuters would have likely derailed, if he had not
seen Coffman's warning lights. "That was a ballsy maneuver you did,"
the grateful motorman told Coffman.
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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