She had been pursued on the highway by the cops then pulled off onto that abandoned narrow road and stopped.
Safer there than on the major highway in the background.....
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So how safe was the cop sitting on the tracks?
That is my point.
No argument there, pure stupidity.
With that being said, I can understand their lack of due diligence considering it was a narrow, little used country back road with no train signal or gate. Who knows how often a train travels that route and I'm sure that never entered their minds........
As a side note, I've hunted pheasant country out in N.W. Kansas along railroad tracks that may have been used only once a year to come into town and load up the grain from the silos.
The last I heard, the railroad discontinued that route and came in and removed all the steel rails, giving the easement back to the farmers that bordered the tracks.