Posted on 02/21/2018 11:35:17 AM PST by csvset
CROZET, Va. A train carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, to their legislative retreat in West Virginia hit a truck on January 31, 2017 leaving one person dead.
Wednesday the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary investigation into the crash.
They said around 11:15 a.m., a 2018 Freightliner truck equipped with a McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing refuse body was traveling southbound on Lanetown Road in Albemarle County near Crozet, Virginia.
The refuse truck, operated by Time Disposal LLC, had a 30-year-old driver and two passengers as it drove towards a highwayrailroad grade crossing, later identified. The crossing is active and includes advance warning signs and pavement markings on its approach, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The crossing is also equipped with crossbuck signs, warning lights, bells and gates.
As the truck neared the highway a westbound Congressional Special Amtrak train was approaching the highwayrailroad grade crossing.
The NTSB said the trains lead locomotive was equipped with a forward-facing track image camera. Data that was taken from the camera showed that as the crossing came into view, the gates were down and the truck was on the grade crossing. Witnesses to the crash reported that the refuse truck entered the crossing after the gates were down.
The trains recorder showed the Amtrak train was traveling about 61 mph when the engineer applied emergency braking. The train struck the left rear of the refuse truck, causing the truck to rotate counterclockwise and then collide with a railroad signal next to the tracks. The refuse body separated from the truck, and the trucks two passengers were ejected, according to the NTSB.
As a result of the crash, one passenger in the truck died. The other truck passenger had serious injuries and the driver of the truck had minor injuries. Three Amtrak crewmembers and three train passengers sustained minor injuries, the NTSB said.
NTSB investigators and Albemarle County Police Department officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation documented the crash scene and the characteristics of the crossing, the train and the refuse truck. The track and operational characteristics of the crossing signals were also examined and documented.
The crash remains under investigation
It was a suicide attack!
Not.
It was stupidity. If it was an planned attack, there wouldn’t have been three people still in the truck as it got hit.
Thank you! Finally!
They really didn’t give enough views to understand what happened. The overhead (drone?) picture has weird irregular masked areas in it. Must be nothing to see hear. Let’s just move along.
I’m following Q posts with interest, so this is not to denounce him. However, the man that dies was indentified on a local Virginia station and as a normal American husband and father. They also reported that the barriers at this RR crossing were notorious for “sticking,” according to neighbors.
My question about this train trip is who was paying for this trip for these congresscritters and their families? Let me guess...
Why couldn’t they have their meeting in DC without their families?
If you go around the arms you can get off the platform. Tires can’t get over the rails and there you sit.
It happens all the time. No conspiracy here, just a truck driver who took on a train and lost.
Another good reason to dismiss Q.
The reason I do not believe the incident was railroad sabotage is that no congressman out and about were shot
That is a strange picture. Why the blacked out portions? I dont know why there would be a need for that.
Moe, Larry and Curley.
I agree. I am not a believer in Q but I find the posts fascinating and entertaining. I think it’s because I want Q to be real. But I keep thinking we are being punked, either by the bad guys or by a politcal/news junkie.
https://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/brenden-dilley-intel-source-part-2/
He tried to beat the train and lost.
Pretty simple.
Happens all the time.
I dont see a train crash that just happened to target most GOP members of Congress to be another good reason to dismiss Q. In fact, the contrary is more apt.
That's probably what happened.
Larry: "Hey Moe! The crossing gate's closing! We're gonna be late again! We'll be fired for sure!"
Moe: "Not if I can help it - I'll go around the gate!"
Curley: "But we'll get hit by the train!"
Moe: "Nah, it's probably a freight train - they're slow"
[truck gets stuck on the tracks]
Larry: "Moe! The train's coming fast! Gun it!"
[Moe guns the truck - it starts to come off]
Moe: "There, you numbskulls - see? I told ya we'd make..." CRASH!
The driver could have been dead/incapacitated before the collision. I have no proof of that. But I dont trust these guys. Perhaps the center wing tank of the garbage truck exploded?
To go around the barrier you have to drive over the rails without help of the crossover. Doesn’t always work, vehicles get caught on the rails often when this is tried.
If it was an attack, why 3 people in the truck? Only need one to drive. Why place the truck on the tracks on purpose and then sit in it and wait get smashed with 3 people?
It’s not fishy.
It happens more frequently during harvest season around here. Fatigued drivers under a time crunch.
If you want to stop a train don’t use a truck. You will lose every single time.
It is funny yet sad that so many think this was some sort of attempt to get at the Republicans on board.
http://wina.com/news/064460-drivers-say-train-crossing-had-problems-day-before-crash/
“Jane Rogers told The Associated Press on Thursday that she crosses the intersection almost every day. She says she got stuck there Tuesday because the arms were lowered even though no train was coming.
Crozet resident Gene Locke told AP he had the same problem Tuesday.”
The refuse truck driver likely assumed the gates were malfunctioning again, and tried to drive around them, but they were not malfunctioning this time.
Plenty of witnesses reported immediately that that crossing was notorious for false train alarms. The gates would go down, bells ringing, lights flashing, and....no train. The locals said people often drove around the stupid false alarms.
This time it was real.
30yo trash truck drivers are not famous for brilliance nor impulse control. The trash guys are often convicted felons, a collection of guys also not known for impulse control. Hopefully was given drug tests. I’m glad the waste guys hire them—hey but for the grace...but this wasn’t some deliberate plot.
Q-laid drinkers need fo step back from Corsi and Alex Jones. They are nuts.
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