WOW! Thank YOU LORD! I first saw this story and video last night on NBC news: Two women narrowly escaped death after diving under an oncoming train in Indiana.
The women survived the July 10 incident, which happened just before sunrise on a bridge northeast of Bloomington, but authorities are reviewing the video for potential criminal charges.
The engineer of the 100-car, 14,000-ton coal train activated its emergency brakes when he saw the women, who began to run.
“They’re frankly running for their lives at this point in time,” Indiana Rail Road spokesman Eric Powell told WTHR-TV on Tuesday while reviewing the video footage.
The two had few choices, as jumping from the tracks would have seriously injured or killed them. Instead, one woman lays flat between the tracks immediately, while the other stumbles before doing the same.
“He had thought he had killed the two people here on this bridge,” Powell said of the train driver. “… Both duck at the last minute.
“How they survived that is nothing short of a miracle.”
Officials say the women have been identified but have not released their names. Train personnel saw them drive away after they’d climbed down from the bridge and wrote down their license plate number.
What would you have done? Would you have done the same? WATCH:
