Sad news out of Walt Disney World, 2 monorails (trains that ride on a rail in the sky) collided around 2 AM on July 5th after delivering one of the final loads of passengers from the Magic Kingdom. One monorail was planning on backing up onto another rail in order to get out of the way to be taken out of service for the night when it backed up onto the WRONG track and hit the other monorail killing a driver. Since I live in Florida and I am within a good driving distance of WDW (50 miles or so) I thought I would pass along this sad news.
I am posting 2 videos, one is a news report about the incident that broke around 2 AM and the other is footage someone shot of the 2 trails crashed together (NO GORE/BLOOD INCLUDED)...since the person was not suppose to be taping at the time the 2nd video could get removed at any time. It is sad that the people who are evacuating from the train are yelling out to see if one of the 2 drivers are OK, sadly the one they are asking "Are you OK?" died from the crash.
My heart goes out to the victim's family...
#1 FOOTAGE FROM CNN AROUND 2AM FROM BYSTANDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObhP2wnp98&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObhP2wnp98&feature=related)
#2 RAW FOOTAGE OF POST CRASH RESULTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSSezXGbS8&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSSezXGbS8&feature=channel_page)
Here is a picture just seconds after the crash!
(http://i25.tinypic.com/33nkcp3.jpg)
:o Oh snap, that's horrible. Hopefully the people involved in the accident are alright.
Quote from: Elija2 on Jul 6, 2009 10:14 AM
:o Oh snap, that's horrible. Hopefully the people involved in the accident are alright.
Only 1 person died (one monorail driver)...but the others only had minor injuries!
thats scary. I was just there in april!
omfg thats horrible
god damit
Is the rapture starting?
Quote from: Super Sonic Boom on Jul 6, 2009 10:09 AM
Sad news out of Walt Disney World, 2 monorails (trains that ride on a rail in the sky) collided around 2 AM on July 5th after delivering one of the final loads of passengers from the Magic Kingdom. One monorail was planning on backing up onto another rail in order to get out of the way to be taken out of service for the night when it backed up onto the WRONG track and hit the other monorail killing a driver. Since I live in Florida and I am within a good driving distance of WDW (50 miles or so) I thought I would pass along this sad news.
I am posting 2 videos, one is a news report about the incident that broke around 2 AM and the other is footage someone shot of the 2 trails crashed together (NO GORE/BLOOD INCLUDED)...since the person was not suppose to be taping at the time the 2nd video could get removed at any time. It is sad that the people who are evacuating from the train are yelling out to see if one of the 2 drivers are OK, sadly the one they are asking "Are you OK?" died from the crash.
My heart goes out to the victim's family...
#1 FOOTAGE FROM CNN AROUND 2AM FROM BYSTANDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObhP2wnp98&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObhP2wnp98&feature=related)
#2 RAW FOOTAGE OF POST CRASH RESULTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSSezXGbS8&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSSezXGbS8&feature=channel_page)
:o
nuff said.
Quote from: Super Sonic Boom on Jul 6, 2009 10:17 AM
Only 1 person died (one monorail driver)...but the others only had minor injuries!
Yeah, but still. It may only be a minor injury now, but it could later return as head trauma or something else.
Quote from: Elija2 on Jul 6, 2009 10:30 AM
Yeah, but still. It may only be a minor injury now, but it could later return as head trauma or something else.
True...but I bet any injuries that could turn out like that were treated in time so that would happen.
Post Merge: July 06, 2009, 07:39:03 PM
More news people...sadly the autopsy came back on the person and the 21 year old pilot who died was obviously CRUSHED to death!
omg, that really sucks. So one person died? The driver? Ok, it'd really suck going on vacation to Disney World and dying. But it'd suck to die regardless
Quote from: NeoMetalSonic on Jul 6, 2009 01:04 PM
omg, that really sucks. So one person died? The driver? Ok, it'd really suck going on vacation to Disney World and dying. But it'd suck to die regardless
They said the dead 21 year old student was studying in computers and was driving for 8 months in a monorail as his job.
No tourists died in the crash...thank god!
Damn it why does the world only have sad stories.. now.........May th driver RIP
I'm so glad I stopped going there after my little accident
sux for the driver though
Quote from: Windlessusher on Jul 8, 2009 03:49 PM
I'm so glad I stopped going there after my little accident
What accident?
Quote from: Super Sonic Boom on Jul 6, 2009 10:31 AM
More news people...sadly the autopsy came back on the person and the 21 year old pilot who died was obviously CRUSHED to death!
OUCH! I hope his family are taking it well.
Quote from: Elija2 on Jul 8, 2009 03:56 PM
What accident?
The accident that's noneia
Quote from: Elija2 on Jul 8, 2009 03:56 PM
OUCH! I hope his family are taking it well.
Ifhe had a family
Quote from: Windlessusher on Jul 8, 2009 03:58 PM
If he had a family
His family did have a memorial for him and his co-workers are grieving thier loss.
Quote from: Super Sonic Boom on Jul 10, 2009 07:37 AM
His family did have a memorial for him and his co-workers are grieving thier loss.
at least he's remembered :)
Monorail Driver R.I.P. 1988(about)-2009
Sad story :-[
Quote from: ChaosMaster on Jul 11, 2009 01:28 PM
Monorail Driver R.I.P. 1988(about)-2009
Sad story :-[
They said people can not sit in the front for a certain amount of time now (because of obvious reasons).
how the heck did the crash happen
Quote from: michael the hedgehog on Jul 16, 2009 05:47 AM
how the heck did the crash happen
Here is one of the local stations I listen to...they showed what the crash most likely looked like, it's all about miscommunication! Yes...I know the embedding is disabled, just click on it to see it on YouTube!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFfj_PSOcI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFfj_PSOcI)
ahh fair enough
What d'you mean fair enough?
it wasn't fair people where killed.
Quote from: ChaosDazer on Jul 16, 2009 06:39 AM
What d'you mean fair enough?
it wasn't fair people where killed.
Hum...just to restate this...only one person died (the purple monorail driver).
Yeah, but it seemed wrong him saying it was fair <_<
Quote from: ChaosDazer on Jul 16, 2009 06:46 AM
Yeah, but it seemed wrong him saying it was fair <_<
You do have a good point there...
Now this is sad...
I guess his work was done here in this world so God already took him.
I hope if he was ready for that.
Quote from: Super Sonic Boom on Jul 16, 2009 06:50 AM
You do have a good point there...
it was for how it happened
*****
Quote from: ChaosDazer on Jul 16, 2009 06:46 AM
Yeah, but it seemed wrong him saying it was fair <_<
most things in life aren't fair :-\
thats sad :'( im am never going to disney world
it just HAD to be on my birthday.gawd.
your b-day ?! wow... :o
I hope everyones OK. Feel bad for the driver.
Life is unfair, and Death is everywhere.
You came to Disneyland only to play...And you get injured and the driver gets killed.