FYI: Woman Wanted After Hit And Run With Train Turns Herself In: High Point Police | wfmynews2.com
ETA: Clearer explanation from other coverage:
According to witnesses at the scene, vehicles were stopped at the railroad crossing for a southbound Amtrak train at a railroad crossing on Pendleton Street, near East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, at about 1:40 p.m. Tuesday.
After the train passed, the crossing arms raised and vehicles began to enter the crossing. Once several vehicles had entered the crossing, the arms came back down for a northbound freight train.
At that time, High Point police said Jeseace Quick, 25, got stuck between the crossing arms and abandoned her car on the tracks. Quick fled the vehicle as the second train was approaching.
The oncoming train struck the vehicle, and after the collision, Quick left the scene before police arrived.
So from the sound of it, her first mistake was entering the track area when her exit path was still blocked by other cars. Her second mistake was panicking and not just blowing the gate.
If you pull up the crossing on Street View, it does appear that there’s plenty of non-road area to make an escape even if cars were blocking her path, but that imagery is also very old, and from the video it’s clear that additional gates have been installed since.
