Posted on 12/21/2022 8:42:55 AM PST by Morgana
This is the terrifying moment a train smashed into a truck carrying a 134-foot concrete beam, causing a huge derailment and several injuries.
Miraculously, nobody was killed when the train ploughed into the truck in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Tuesday.
The semi-truck had crossed the tracks, but the trailer carrying the massive concrete truss bridge beam was still over the railroad as the driver waited for a traffic light to change.
Dramatic footage shows how the train's driver attempts in vein to slow down while ringing out his horn before the disastrous collision.
The train struck the trailer with enough force to cause three locomotives and 10 railroad cars to derail. The concrete beam was completely obliterated by the force of the smash, which also sparked a fire.
Photographs of the aftermath show the catastrophic pile-up of train cars strewn along the sides of the tracks.
Two Norfolk Southern Train employees were hospitalized with minor injuries, according to the Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management.
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Trains also have the right of way at all times.
F=MA, it’s the Law!
There’s a job opening if you have a CDL.
“..F=MA, it’s the Law!...”
Can’t be, and the woke would violently beg to differ.
It was a law created by nasty, mean, old, racist white men therefor it cannot be real. /s
Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?...........................
. . . and a probable new order for another 134 concrete beam.
F=JB, It’s also a LAW!...............
There’s a job opening if you have a CDL.
Damn skippy. And plenty of lawyers licking their chops. Hope they have insurance.
Isn’t NOT stopping on railroad tracks like, lesson #1 in CDL school?! Wow.
“That’ll buff right out.”
The transport contractor will be liable for all damages. This was egregious on their part. One phone call would have prevented this.
> It was a law created by nasty, mean, old, racist white men therefor it cannot be real. /s <
F= ma is Newton’s Second Law of Motion. Awhile back I was reading about a school that prohibited teachers from mentioning Newton. He was, as you noted, an evil white guy. Teachers were to just say “The Second Law of Motion”.
Unreal. I guess this is how it felt living in the old Soviet Union.
The semi-truck had crossed the tracks, but the trailer carrying the massive concrete truss bridge beam was still over the railroad as the driver waited for a traffic light to change.I guess he should have run the red light.
You don’t see colossal f-ups like this that often.
Actually, loads like this are required to hire pace cars in most states which can do exactly that in a situation like this.
Gross tonnage always wins.
Casey Jones, you’d better, watch your speed.
The truck was stopped on the railroad tracks waiting for a traffic light to change?
I think I see the problem. Only DUMBASSES stop on tracks anytime.
I guess he didn't notice.
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