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Yea, just looking at that thing, it shouldn’t be going very fast — no way it stops or turns well and it’s not safe in any sort of collision. I’m sure as a weird one-off vehicle parts are stressed in odd ways that are hard to detect, thus the potential tire/wheel failure. Sad.
Depends on a lot of things, but I imagine it’ll be over fairly quickly for either the $300k, $700k, or policy limit, as the case may be, cap.
Wouldn’t be too surprising if this was a joyride. I’m just guessing.
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Yep. I guarantee you the victim's family has already been contacted by a plethora of ambulance chasers. They smell blood in the water.
Ha, I guess this club takes care of all their silly trains."cared for by the Purdue Reamer Club"
Who in hell thought that name was a good idea??
I’m clear on all of that.
It weighs roughly the same as a medium duty pickup truck. This was a horrible accident that could have happened to any medium-sized vehicle.Here's another article about it (confirms your potential top speed +)... :
Purdue University’s mascot train The Boilermaker Special involved in fatal highway crash that killed 1, injured 2
Purdue confirmed the tragic multi-vehicle accident in an online statement.
Makes me wonder A) why they felt they needed a top speed of 75; and B) who the idiot was who certified it to be able to be driven on State Roads...
That's a replica, toy, train... It never should have been able to have been driven more than 5 mph more than the top speed it would be asked to go in a parade...
If it needs to travel they should roll it on a trailer and ship it where it needs to go...
No one blows a tire these days... To let a tire reach that condition is outrageous...
I don't think that a vehicle like this would be kept in an area that was generally accessible to anyone Who walked by, with keys hanging from a nearby hook, and I don't think anyone could easily hotwire it to get it started. Even Purdue Administration is smart enough to recognize the liability of providing that type of access.
I’m not saying it’s stolen, just that people with access to it took it out for fun.
Ken is like 85: I doubt he does much of anything anymore.
Kind of, yeah.
I think he still works at least part-time. He's often at Mother Bear's West across from their office in a suit.
That's right Psycho... now, lightin' up, Francis
I looked Ken up on mycase.in.gov, and his 2 most recent appearances are from 2017 and 2021. Ken is a glorified mascot at this point: I hope none of their clients think he will actually be representing them.
Definitely. No way he is doing hard work, just biz dev and fun stuff.
It is clearly licensed to do so by the state. No way Purdue allows it out there if it isn’t. Now maybe it shouldn’t be and that is some due diligence that the victim’s attorney should be doing. This is why the state BMV is on the list of those being sued
It's a street legal vehicle build on a semi frame that drives on interstate. Why can't it drive on roads? Its not unsafe.Here's another article about it (confirms your potential top speed +)... :
Purdue University’s mascot train The Boilermaker Special involved in fatal highway crash that killed 1, injured 2
Purdue confirmed the tragic multi-vehicle accident in an online statement.
Makes me wonder A) why they felt they needed a top speed of 75; and B) who the idiot was who certified it to be able to be driven on State Roads...
That's a replica, toy, train... It never should have been able to have been driven more than 5 mph more than the top speed it would be asked to go in a parade...
If it needs to travel they should roll it on a trailer and ship it where it needs to go...
No one blows a tire these days... To let a tire reach that condition is outrageous...
The club that operates the train has a super rigorous training schedule that involves getting like 50 hours of drive time “training” similar to drivers Ed. Probably that.
How do you know they didn't do either? You seem to have a lot of opinions with zero facts or ideas on what happened or what they do.
I bet it is. Like most fleet areas keys are actually pretty easy to get. The key boards are easily defeated. Purdue has a very large and pretty accessible motor pool. About double the size and fleet of IUs. Of course I’m not saying this happened but they aren’t as secure as one might think.
There's a whole page of the history of the Reamer Club"cared for by the Purdue Reamer Club"
Who in hell thought that name was a good idea??
