“Follow the yellow line,” he said, pointing at the path.

A Chevrolet pickup truck was driving east on the highway when he drifted across the dotted yellow line separating the lanes and collided with a 1990s GMC Safari, Ruvalcaba said.

Not only are they enormous, but they have strategically placed themselves so that missing them on the right puts you too close to the K-rail, while driving to the left puts you over the double yellow line.

The Yellow Line train carrying 31 commuters and seven CTA workers was southbound from Skokie when it collided with the slower-moving rail equipment, said Robert Jurewicz, the Chicago Fire Department’s second district chief.

Journalists were not allowed to speak with them or to cross a yellow line two yards from each cell.