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Re: BNSF Train Almost Hit Firefighters in Oakley, Calif (video link)
Author: J
Date: 10-12-2018 - 11:19
For those who may not be familiar, here is a presentation discussing the FRA-mandated Emergency Notification Signs located at every crossing.
FRA Presentation ENS
It seems emergency responders aren't the only ones who need better training on the issue. Below is news coverage and a video of an oversize trailer with police escort that was stuck on a track long enough for someone to have called. The track was stuck at a T-Intersection and was hung up on the track because it was unable to enter the perpendicular highway. The resulting accident injured more than 50 persons and dumped engine 185 onto its side.
RALEIGH —
The driver of a supersize tractor-trailer and his state trooper escort had somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes to alert CSX railroad dispatchers who might have stopped an Amtrak train that derailed Monday after it struck the truck at a Halifax County railroad crossing.
Instead of calling the emergency phone number stamped on a bright blue sign at the crossing, they focused on an attempt to squeeze the big truck through a tight turn at a nearby intersection.
“There was no indication a train was coming,” Lt. Jeff Gordon, a Highway Patrol spokesman, said Tuesday. “The trooper was out of the car. He was actually trying to get the tractor to back up so he could attempt a second left turn.”
The truck was 164 feet long – so big that its trailer straddled the track while the cab blocked traffic in the intersection of U.S. 301 and N.C. 903, 80 feet from the tracks.
Source: News and Observer
Video of Collision YouTube Halifax NC
FRA Presentation ENS
It seems emergency responders aren't the only ones who need better training on the issue. Below is news coverage and a video of an oversize trailer with police escort that was stuck on a track long enough for someone to have called. The track was stuck at a T-Intersection and was hung up on the track because it was unable to enter the perpendicular highway. The resulting accident injured more than 50 persons and dumped engine 185 onto its side.
RALEIGH —
The driver of a supersize tractor-trailer and his state trooper escort had somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes to alert CSX railroad dispatchers who might have stopped an Amtrak train that derailed Monday after it struck the truck at a Halifax County railroad crossing.
Instead of calling the emergency phone number stamped on a bright blue sign at the crossing, they focused on an attempt to squeeze the big truck through a tight turn at a nearby intersection.
“There was no indication a train was coming,” Lt. Jeff Gordon, a Highway Patrol spokesman, said Tuesday. “The trooper was out of the car. He was actually trying to get the tractor to back up so he could attempt a second left turn.”
The truck was 164 feet long – so big that its trailer straddled the track while the cab blocked traffic in the intersection of U.S. 301 and N.C. 903, 80 feet from the tracks.
Source: News and Observer
Video of Collision YouTube Halifax NC
