Posted on 10/11/2020 11:39:56 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A fast-moving freight train plowed into a semi-truck that ended up stuck on railroad tracks in Indiana on Friday, according to officials.
Fire officials said the train struck the truck and trailer, pushing the cab "a couple hundred yards" down the tracks from the crossing.
Fire officials said both the train and the semi caught fire, but crews were eventually able to extinguish the blaze.
"The driver of the semi was out of his truck before impact and did not sustain any injuries and the train conductor was checked out by EMS," fire officials said.
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Driver missed the class: 911 and the number off of the crossing signal.
Thankfully no one was hurt. I guess that’s one way to remove a stuck semi from railroad tracks.
Actually if you watched the video, there was emergency personal with heavy equipment trying to remove the semi when the train hit it.
if the emergency personnel were already on site (and I guess I should watch the video too), why wasn’t the railroad contacted. They can halt train traffic for an emergency.
I was a truck driver that used to haul rail road equipment. You dial 911 and have them shut down the line immediately. You do not worry about getting the truck off the track.
Well, glad to hear nobody got killed. Of all the places to break down, on the train tracks is the worst possible place. If only the truck had broken down a few feet in either direction from the tracks, none of this would have happened.
Please don’t link us to fascistbook again. Good grief.
About 20 years ago, my boy was a conductor up in the cab when an Idaho semi loaded with sugar beets tried to beat the train to the crossing and lost. Slammed just aft of the cab and said that the beets were hitting the windshield like incoming artillery.
The engineer was yelling “Jesus, I’ve killed him!”. My boy said, “No you didn’t, he’s right over there.” The engineer looked to his left, into the face of the driver, whose cab did a 90 deg swing and ended up with him looking right in on the engineer, with eyes as big as saucers.
Turned out that the beet company couldn’t find enough experienced drivers and took anybody who applied, showed them the truck, and told them to drive it the the plant.
it is missing the universal sign of NO TRUCKS allowed, and give the number of axles for what is permissible. The trucker GPS would have also alerted him, along with a trucker map.
But as a trucker, you are taught to “consume” signage. He didn’t.
Wow. I’ve never seen that before. So now I wonder how long that particular accidentaiting to happen has been sitting there while local politicians argued over who should pay for fixing the problem. A lot of rail crossing issues drag on for decades.
I haul propane - over 12,000 gallons per load - in a tractor and trailer that I own.
At ANY railroad crossing that is NOT controlled be traffic lights, I must stop, put on my flashers, and cross the tracks WITHOUT CHANGING GEARS!!!
Any tractor trailer that stops on the tracks, well, it really sucks when that happens on your last day of work. This driver will never be in a commercial driving position for the rest of his life.
What I want to know is whether anyone saw Marty throwing the red log into the firebox...
OK seriously though, glad nobody got hurt. It seems to me there should have been a way to prevent this.
Along my commute about 25 years ago, a family was moving into the area, They had all their possessions in a semi tractor trailer moving van (Allied, North American, one of the major companies). The family spent the night in a hotel room and woke up early to get to their new house to await the movers. Not two miles from the house, the belly of the tractor trailer was hung up on the tracks. Along came a freight train. The driver of the truck apparently stayed in it rocking and burning the rubber off the wheels right up until impact. He went for a little spin but unharmed. The contents of the trailer, including a brand new BMW, were scattered up the tracks for a half mile.
The peculiar thing I always thought regarding that morning was that the RR crossing was right next to the local fire department. You would have thought somebody could have contacted the CSX people.....
Yep. I’ve seen a ton of videos during my orientation. If you cannot restart the tractor (if it died), or you get hung and cannot move— You get OUT of the truck and call 911 as you are briskly walking/running to the RR Crossing to get the number or description of it in order to tell the 911 operator to shut down the RR crossing.
911 operators are trained on who to call to immediately shut down the line. Everyone freezes in place until it gets unscrewed.
And if a semi gets hung up, the crossing MUST be inspected by a RR engineer regardless whether or not their is visible damage.
I know. I got the class.
Driving home tired and slow around midnight after a 16 hour day at the plant I was puttering across a rail crossing near my house where there was a sharp curve in the track. Out of the black night the truck was lit up like Christmas by a locomotive headlight coming around a sharp curve a short distance away. That woke me up better than a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
The funny thing about it was I had finished loading a hopper car on that train 15 minutes earlier.
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