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Dead man's switch. A pedal acting as a dead man's switch in a bucket lift truck. A dead man's switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control. Originally applied to switches on a vehicle or machine ...
Unstoppable. (2010 film) Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.
A man wakes from a car crash suffering with amnesia. He flags down a passing car, but the driver dies while swerving off the road. The man realizes he does not know where or who he is. Checking his wallet, he learns that his name is Liam Hartwell. While walking towards a town, Liam stops at a roadside diner where everyone is dead.
The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on Friday, May 16, 1986 in Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young, 43, and his wife Doris Young, 47, [1] took 154 hostages – 136 children and 18 adults – at Cokeville Elementary School. Transporting ten firearms and an improvised gasoline bomb, the ...
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, was pulling a train of 47 cars, including possibly two cars loaded with hazardous chemicals, specifically molten phenol, a substance ...
Even if there is a dead man's switch that triggers instructions to sell Satoshi's fortune, Ginns says the market would be able to absorb the shock and would eventually rally as the currency became ...
"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 39 in Canada. [3] The song was written and composed by Brian Wilson, Artie Kornfeld, Roger Christian, and Jan Berry at Wilson's mother's house in Santa Monica.
August 4, 2024 at 1:25 PM. Police are investigating a deadly shooting in South L.A. early Sunday. (KTLA) A man was found shot to death early Sunday at the scene of a single-car crash in South Los ...