I am driving around town close to my house. The vehicle I'm driving is some huge monstrosity of an SUV and I'm finding that I can't handle it very well. I'm too short to reach the pedals, the steering wheel is enormous and I can hardly see over the dashboard. I come up to an intersection that crosses railroad tracks. The light is yellow and I decide to stop, having to stand up with my full weight on the brake. Good thing, because here comes a train. Several cars behind me have already stopped, but a red Jeep Cherokee comes flying through the intersection, trying to beat the light and the train. It looks as if he is going to make it underneath one of the train cars (apparently this train is very tall) and WHAM!, the train slams into his Jeep. The car bursts and is torn apart as if it was made of cardboard. I'm watching, horrified, from a safe distance. I'm thinking this guy is dead, there's no way anyone could survive this. As the last train car passes, I can hear screaming, screaming, screaming. In the distance, I can see the driver of the jeep laying on the tracks with his arm completely severed. There is blood everywhere and the screaming is ringing in my ears.
Midnight Train to Georgia ~ Gladys Knight & the Pips
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