Side Impact Airheads

Catching the train:

All Canadian rail companies will be required to stick reflectors on each and every train car within the next seven years, a decision designed to prevent dozens of deaths at small rail crossings every year.

The Transportation Safety Board conducted a study on the issue in 2003 that suggested between 1996 and 2001 motorists drove directly into trains at night 62 times.

It's a train, for godsake! They're big, and noisy and... well, BIG. If someone seriously has problems seeing a moving train from the side, I don't think reflectors are going to help much.

As for this:

Last year, 12-year-old Sabrina Latimer was killed near Brockville, Ont., when she walked into the second section of an oncoming train, one that she did not see coming.

She walked into the side of a train. A big, noisy, heavy, moving train. That's just natural selection in action. Or suicide. Either way, reflectors are hardly going to help.