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Two Trains Collide Head On (Original Post)
Night Watchman
Jun 2016
OP
More from NBC site. No details about how the trains got on the same track section like this.
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2016
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ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)1. Gool Ol' Congress
Health and safety uppermost in their minds.
elleng
(130,865 posts)4. The carriers beg continually for more time to comply.
"It's too expensive!"
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)2. Whattttttt? Congress failed to do their job again?????
I'm shocked I tell you shocked. I wonder how long it will take those douchenozzles to blame Obama?
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)3. WTF
The train industry doesn't know how to use GPS?
TrogL
(32,822 posts)5. They're talking about self-driving transport trucks.
They can't even stop trains from crashing into each other.
Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)6. More from NBC site. No details about how the trains got on the same track section like this.
I'm guess a switching error may have caused it, but who knows?
3 Missing, 1 Injured After Two Trains Collide Head-On in Fiery Texas Crash
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-trains-collide-head-fiery-crash-texas-injuring-1-n600426
Three crew members were missing and one was injured after two trains crashed head-on Tuesday in a fiery crash in northern Texas.
The trains collided just before 8:30 a.m. local time (9:30 a.m. ET) east of Panhandle, Texas, along Highway 60, according to Panhandle City Hall officials.
Officials said the city was draining its water supply to fill fire trucks' tanks as it desperately tried to quell the flames.
Both trains are from the BNSF railway company, said Joe Faust, director of public affairs for BNSF in Texas. Four employees were involved in the incident, he added, and BNSF investigative crews are on the scene to assist in rescue efforts of the other three, who officials said were unaccounted for.
The fourth crew member was taken to Northwest Texas Healthcare System in nearby Amarillo, Texas. He is in stable condition, according to the hospital's marketing director, Patrick Buckley. The hospital is prepared for more patients if needed.
Panhandle, which is 350 miles northwest of Dallas, was evacuating some residents due to the smoke from the wreck, according to NBC affiliate KAMR.
BNSF experienced a similar head-on collision in Louisiana in December 2013, according to NBC affiliate KCBD.
ELI PANKEN
TOPICS U.S. NEWS
FIRST PUBLISHED JUN 28 2016, 12:47 PM ET
tclambert
(11,085 posts)7. Wasn't Gomez Addams on hand to dynamite the tracks just before collision?