Tricycle Vs. Train

This is not funny, BUT I can just see the 9 people on the back of a tricycle or "farming vehicle." The tricycle is used to transport everything from people to construction materials to beer. And they are everywhere. I have a number of pictures on an earlier post showing the flexibility of these things.

Six people were killed and three were critically injured after a farming vehicle they rode collided with a train at a railway crossing in northwest China on Sunday.

The accident occurred around 9 am Sunday at an unguarded railway crossing in Heyang County in Shaanxi Province, when a farming tricycle with nine people aboard crashed with a passing train, according to local railway authorities.

Four of the nine were killed at the scene and two others died in hospital. The other three, who were seriously injured, are still receiving emergency treatment in hospital.

The cause of the accident is still being investigated.

Unguarded railway crossings are common in China, posing a threat to motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.

I'm not sure we need to spend a lot of time on the cause of the accident. Take that money and put in some signals.