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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:08 am
I didn't hear about it until my Japanese class just now. My Japanese instructor asked me to use my computer to check the news on CNN.com News. I didn't know why. After some class presentations, I setup my computer to go on the net. My friend asked me to go to Yahoo! instead. So I did. A train apparently derailed in Amagasaki, Japan. As of the moment, 57 are dead and over 400 have been taken to the hospital. I really don't know what to say about this... sad
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:30 am
Sounds shitty. Best thing to say about something like this is burry your face in your pillow and scream, "********". Then you feel better and can contemplate the immence severity of the death of so many people so quickly. The significance of lack thereof of human life is a fun one to contemplate too.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:40 pm
Stuff like that makes me wonder just why there are so many people on Earth...
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:44 pm
oooh. i saw that on the news here last night. wow that was a nasty trian wreck. tho it was all in Japanese, so i didn't get the details. any info on how it
derailed? or was it like some freak acciednt?
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:12 am
From what I last heard the death toll was somewhere around 75 people. Part of the problem lies in that the apartment building was a little close to the tracks-- although not to the same extent that many of the lines are in Tokyo.
I regret not watching the news last night... I would have been able to glean something more substantial from that, and god knows where today's copy of the Asahi shinbun is... gonk
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:56 am
Apparently the train driver was young (23 years old) and unexperienced. The emperors of Japan made official annoucements of their sorrow towards the event. The train derailed from the trainway and ran into a building. I guess you can imagine how bad that just looks and if you cant:  (Sorry for my poor english skills.)
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:49 pm
Musta scared everyone in the vicinity really bad
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:25 pm
He was not so much inexperienced as careless with a record of mistakes. With that sort of record, its strange that JR West would have allowed him to run that course in the first place, let alone still operate a train.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:56 am
From what I've heard, the driver was inexperienced, and the train was running late. To make up for lost time, the driver speeded the train to around 80mph (or kph... not sure which) and at a corner, the train was going too fast, thus it flew off the track, in to a fense, and wrapped around an apartment complex. I also heard the there might be rocks or other debris on the track, but investigators are ruling that out for now.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:09 pm
Its really quite scary... I think Im afraid to ride the trains when I get to Japan (hopefully) next April... But one must overcome their fears... eventually. I feel sorrowful and very sympathetic for those who have lost their loved ones to this incident.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:43 pm
my sensei told us about the accident in class but I didn't realize the death toll was so high. sad
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:56 am
smithydaforge From what I've heard, the driver was inexperienced, and the train was running late. To make up for lost time, the driver speeded the train to around 80mph (or kph... not sure which) and at a corner, the train was going too fast, thus it flew off the track, in to a fense, and wrapped around an apartment complex. I also heard the there might be rocks or other debris on the track, but investigators are ruling that out for now. 80mph looks right--- but I don't remember the km to mile conversion factor. He hit the curve doing something above 100km/h, even though the suggested speed for such a curve (was written on a sign before the curve) was 70km/h.
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