文档介绍：11. At the Critieal Monent
On a sunny afternoon Kristi and the kids drove from their home to visit Kathy, a close friend. Todd and Marki immediately scampered1 into Kathy's backyard to play, and Kristi reminded them to keep away from the railroad tracks that ran behind the house. Just to be sure, she carefully drew an imaginary line with her foot.“ Don't cross it,” she warned.
Todd and Marki chased each other around. Minutes later, they scooted2 past the boundary3 their mother had far away,a freight4 train rumbled5 into town.“ Suddenly I came around a curve and saw two children playing,” recalls Jim Hayes,the engineer. He blasted6 warning signals to the kids, just a few hundred feet directly , Todd jumped away from the tracks and began to run.“ Run, Marki, run!” he shouted. Marki got confused. She ran, but instead of following her brother she sprinted7 forward, still in the path of the and the conductor seated next to him, Dale Getter, watched her, horrified. “ Oh, God,” Hayes said as he pulled the brakes and sounded the whistle , Getter had managed to scramble8 out the otive9 door. The train had slowed to about 20 miles an hour, still enough to crush the child, or him if he fell. Getter had wanted to reach down and grab the little girl, but the train was rapidly bearing down on her. Without a second to spare, he stuck out