Jane Eliza Taber was tremendously injured. The train had cut off her left arm, left ear, smashed into the left side of her face, removing her left eye and part of her scalp. By any accounts, she should have died. But she was tough.
Has a man survived getting hit by a train going 110 miles per hour?
He was struck by a train traveling at speeds of 110mph — yet miraculously Darryle Jacob See has survived with just scratches and fractured bones. The 22-year-old from Indiana was walking along the U.S. 12 east of Michigan City on Friday when he was hit by the Amtrak train.
Can a person survive being run over by a train?
Are you more likely to survive a plane crash or a train crash?
Compare it to other major forms of transportation – with 0.04 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, train travel is much more dangerous than airplanes' 0.01 deaths per 100 million miles.
How often do people get run over by trains?
every two hoursThe National Transportation Safety Bureau reports that a train hits a vehicle or person in the U.S. every two hours.