Posted on 03/10/2015 5:06:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
An Amtrak train headed to New York City slammed into a tractor-trailer that got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a difficult left-hand turn in North Carolina Monday. One of the train's cars toppled and the conductor and at least 54 others were injured.
It was the third serious commuter train crash in less than two months. Two deadly crashes in New York and California in February killed a total of seven people and injured 30.
The oversized flatbed trailer involved in Monday's crash was transporting a modular building wrapped in blue plastic and jammed with electrical equipment, said Lt. Jeff Gordon, a spokesman for the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
One of the troopers escorting the truck from Clayton, North Carolina to the Virginia border was trying to help the driver negotiate a difficult left-hand turn from the tracks onto the road in the town of Halifax, Gordon said. But the 164-foot tractor-trailer combination, longer than half a football field, couldn't navigate it, he said.
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I guess they shortened the football field to 164’ from 300’.
longer than half a football field,
Was that the 92 Silver Star train?
It makes the run from Miami to New York daily I believe.
My wife and children road that train last month.
WATCH the dramatic train crash video, complete with screaming hysterial woman, here:
“Was that the 92 Silver Star train?
It makes the run from Miami to New York daily I believe.
My wife and children road that train last month.”
Article states that it was the Carolinian, which runs daily between Charlotte and NYC.
are there a lot of train derailments or is it my imaginatation?
Is this a NAFTA driver from south of the boarder?
Is this, along with forest fires, the poor man’s bomb by terrorists?
Oh, thanks I didn’t see it.
2 trucks on the tracks in 2 collisions inside of 2 weeks.
The Amtrak train was the Carolinian, which runs between Charlotte and New York each day.
The driver of the tractor and trailer has been identified as John Devin Black, of Claremont, and was not injured.
Thanks.
When is someone going to say “enough” with the mega-trucks? It’s not just the collisions on RR tracks. It seems that almost every major pileup or endlessly snarled traffic situation on the highways involves a truck that isn’t controlled well in many situations.
He was most likely if he fled the scene and was headed in a southerly direction. Happens all the time in border states like Texas. Insurance? We don't need no feelthy stinkin' insurance or CDL (Commercial Drivers License).
Prayers up for the injured.
GPS claims another victim?
Is that abnormal?
I don't have any stats but it seems pretty common, always has.
Last year some old guy in a motorhome stalled on the tracks here in our town and got clobbered. Amazingly he survived (the part of his rig actually on the tracks was the back half of the bus). They found him strapped in the seat about a quarter mile down from the impact.
You mean you don't like highway multi-lane tractor trailer races up the mountains going 40mph? You don't like your hometown curbs and road surfaces being destroyed by these heavy 53 foot trailers? How about those 53 footers closing off roads and parking lots to make deliveries in congested areas? Fun, fun, fun.
I hope that driver is ticketed and the company has to pay all the legal and property damage expenses. I see way too many people being careless at RR crossings without regard to the safety of other people.
The weird part was the earlier one the guy ran away.
Not to get out of the way, but to avoid the police.
I wonder how many warrants he had and if he was here legally.
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