MODESTO, Calif. — A Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputy parked his patrol car on railroad tracks, leading a train to hit it. The sheriff's office is now investigating the crash.
The crash happened around 4 a.m. Wednesday near the 400 block of E Street, north of 3rd Street, in the community of Empire, the sheriff's office said. A deputy was responding to a call of a woman and man arguing out loud.
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I lived in Empire for about 6 months before I went into the army, and had friends that lived there after I got out and was living in Riverbank City of Action, so I know the little town well.
Third Street does NOT cross the tracks, it just dead-ends there at them which means Dumb Fuck Deputy wasn't parked on the road crossing the tracks, he was parked on the actual tracks themselves. What's even worse is there's something like 5 sets of tracks there with a switching yard about a quarter mile to the south, which means the tracks are fairly busy night and day.
