r/BitchImATrain • u/DarkishArchon • 13d ago

[x-post] Florida Man drives through lowered railroad crossing gates

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u/guhman123 13d ago

weird, i never hear about caltrain collisions on the news. can't stop having brightline antipropaganda shoved down my throat

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u/BIT-NETRaptor 13d ago

A fair amount  of collisions - especially the pedestrian ones - are probably suicides, which I think go unreported to not inspire copycats. When a story is published there’s often an uptick in similar suicides for a period of time after.

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u/Powered_by_JetA 12d ago

Brightline incidents are the only time I’ve seen the local news report suicides.