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Early Wednesday morning, a Seaford resident was killed by a Long Island Rail Road work train. Newsday reports that Patrick Robert Neenan apparently jumped into the tracks at the Bellmore station. An MTA spokesman said suicide was "considered unlikely" (the incident is still under investigation), noting that Neenan's iPod and cell phone were on the tracks, too, "We're leaning toward the idea that he must have been trying to retrieve the items." Neenan, 22, was discharged from the Navy and had been working as a construction worker in Manhattan. His shocked mother said, "He was talking to me about all his plans. He wanted to backpack across Europe, he wanted to go to Alaska. Just so many plans."
Man Fatally Hit by LIRR Train
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And here comes another lawsuit for the MTA to deal with saying the work train should've seen him on the tracks and stopped the train on a dime.
Obviously not too many details available, but any train passing through a station should be blowing the whistle. The article doesn't say that it wasn't blown, and I'm not assuming either way.
However in many areas, NIMBYs have restricted warning whistles to the daylight hours (when they're needed the least....), and it appears LIRR was hit by these NIMBYs back in 1999. MNR refused to exempt platform whistles from these restrictions, but I can't find any definitive info for LIRR.
The sad thing is this is all avoidable. Really tragic.
I hate to be insensitive, but one should not need whistles to know that railroad tracks are not for jumping onto, no matter what you dropped.
I agree wholeheartedly. Nothing in my previous comment should be construed as absolving the victim of their responsibility to stay off the tracks.
I actually went onto the tracks at the LIRR's Medford station a couple months ago to retrieve a dropped iPod. It's a very lightly used non-third-rail station with just a few trains a day and long sightlines in either direction, so it wasn't dangerous. What I noticed very quickly is that the distance between the track level and the platform is much greater than it appears when you're standing on the platform. Trying to climb up onto the platform isn't easy at all (I just walked around the end of the platform).
[6] And the replies should start coming in any time now, "Any real man with upper body strength wouldn't have any problems getting back on the platform. I've done it!"
6] And the replies should start coming in any time now, "Any real man with upper body strength wouldn't have any problems getting back on the platform. I've done it!"
Heh heh, I actually do have a lot of upper-body strength (285-lb. bench press), but I wasn't about to mess up my clothes by trying to climb up onto the platform.
All talk of whether there should be any reason to be on the tracks in the first place aside, what ever happened to "look both ways?" Unless he got stuck down there and couldn't get back up, he must have been able to see the train coming...that's a long straight section of track.
A family has lost a son, a brother, a cousin, and a friend. Imagine losing someone in such a tragic accident and stumbling upon your insensitive comments. My heart goes out to his friends and family and no matter what happened that night, a family is still in mourning.
We will all miss you Neenan. You made us all smile. You'll always be apart of our Navy Family.
love Clements' wife.
First condolences to the family and friends of Patrick Robert Neenan.
I wonder if alcohol (again) played a role in one of these LIRR tragedies...
The Bellmore LIRR Station is an elevated station with room underneath the platform for one to hide/wait until the the train passes...also both tracks (especially the eastbound) at the station are straight for well over a mile making it very easy to see (at night) a train coming from a distance.