A 20-year-old woman was seriously injured when the parked police patrol car she was detained in was struck by a train in Colorado. A Platteville police officer stopped the woman's car just past a set of railroad tracks and parked the patrol car on the crossing. "Stopping your car on the train tracks, getting out of your car and leaving your car parked on the train tracks with someone inside, if that's not recklessness I don’t know what is," Farrell said. Had it not been a police officer who parked on the train tracks, Farrell said he suspects charges would have already been filed. "Imagine if a mother parked her car across train tracks with a 2-year-old child inside and the car got hit.

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