{"id":4878,"date":"2010-08-07T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2010-08-07T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T01:28:18","slug":"bereaved-ohio-family-suing-norfolk-southern-for-failing-to-change-laws-of-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/bereaved-ohio-family-suing-norfolk-southern-for-failing-to-change-laws-of-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereaved Ohio family suing Norfolk Southern for failing to change laws of motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for their loss, but suing the railroad because the train crew didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldnewssun.com\/news\/springfield-news\/family-of-man-hit-by-train-suing-railroad-canoe-company-848161.html?cxtype=rss_local-news\" target=\"_blank\">change the laws of physics<\/a> to avoid hitting Matthew Johnson as he ran along a trestle won&#8217;t work:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The family of a man who was hit by a train while jumping off a trestle into a river two years ago is suing the railroad and a local canoe center, according to documents filed in Clark County Common Pleas Court Thursday, Aug. 5.<br \/>\nMatthew Johnson, 21, died Aug. 10, 2008 while he and three other people were standing on a train trestle between Old Mill Road and the Masonic Temple grounds.<br \/>\nJohnson\u2019s mother, Carol Johnson, of West Carrollton, has filed suit against Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Aaron\u2019s Canoe and Kayak Center, Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Among the allegations listed in the complaint:<br \/>\n\u2022 The canoe company \u201cknew or should have known that individuals frequently went onto the train trestle and jumped into the Mad River.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Train conductors \u201cfailed to timely and effectively stop the train,\u201d causing Johnson\u2019s death.<br \/>\n\u2022 The railroad was negligent in its duty to \u201cmaintain and equip its train with all necessary navigational and\/or safety devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear here: there is no &#8220;navigational and\/or safety device&#8221; ever conceived that can safely stop a multi-thousand ton freight train in less than hundreds of metres of distance. Physics does not play favourites &mdash; once that much mass is in motion, it takes a lot of energy to stop it without catastrophic dis-assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for their loss, but suing the railroad because the train crew didn&#8217;t change the laws of physics to avoid hitting Matthew Johnson as he ran along a trestle won&#8217;t work: The family of a man who was hit by a train while jumping off a trestle into a river two years ago is suing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,237,16,13],"tags":[52,602],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-railways","category-science","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-physics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1gG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}