Mom’s track crossing bad example to kids

Mom’s track crossing bad example to kids

To the mother I saw at the Roselle Metra station this morning hustling her two young children across the tracks in front of an oncoming train: I looked for you to tell you this in person, but since I couldn’t find you I can only hope you will read this. You do realize you just taught your children to run in front of trains, don’t you? Oh, there was plenty of time, you say. And your young children will be able to judge this for themselves, when they try it? Because you showed them it’s OK to try to beat an oncoming train. What if one of them had tripped and fallen? What if you had?

Earlier in the week a pedestrian was killed at the Hanover Park Metra station. I don’t know if those circumstances were similar, but chances are good they were. We see it all too often, and I fear someday I’ll have to watch the person who thought “there’s plenty of time to get across” lose that gamble. Today, thank heaven, it wasn’t your children. Today.

Mari T. Fecarotta

Schaumburg