Another One Bites the Dust...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

Darn, it costs money to play the video. Crap, I really wanna see it.............

Hey 4884,
If you go to http://www.msn.com and scroll down to the video highlights and then from the video page, you will be able to search for "train crash" and get to see it for nothing.

If you watch Matt Lauer's interview with the guy who filmed it, you will get to see it in slow motion several times.

Darrin

[steveblackledge]

the outcome would have ben much worse if the truck was not as far across the crossing, it hit the middle weakest point of the trailor cleanley slicing it in half, it's a miracle the trailor chassis didn't de rail the loco

[Anonymous]

Darn, it costs money to play the video. Crap, I really wanna see it.............

[Anonymous]

PC = Too Chicken to Speak the Truth

[leonardbrand]

Hey, AntonioFP45, got a question for you? does PC stand for politcally correct or politcally corrupt, just wondering.

[leonardbrand]

I saw the accident on the news as well as on the internet. and while I'm no rocket scintist but it looks to me like if the light facing the track would either go green or stay green and the other lights would go red or stay red long enough for traffic to clear the tracks with out having to worry about the other traffic. when the crossing arm started coming down giving them enough time to clear the track.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by fiverings

Just what part of the "Do Not Stop On Tracks" sign on the crossing signal (clearly visible on the video) did that driver fail to understand?

well apparently she was abiding by the much more popwerful "do not run a red light" law. Seem, after watching this video several times that the following occured:

A: Truck was stopped before the crossing.
B: the light turned green, truck proceeded to go forward across the crossing
C: Crossing signals began and arm started to come down.
D: truck proceeded ahead, catching the arm on the trailer.
E: Light turned red, forcing truck to stop. seems section between crossing and intersection was to short for the truck, leaving the rear of the truck on the tracks.
F: Train barrels through and takes out the trailer, at the same time the force fo impact uncoupled the cars from the locomotive.

Thank whoever/whatever you believe in that someone thought this intersection and crossing were to dangerous and decided to film it from multiple angles to prove it was.

But there are some serious questions raised here:
1) why is the section between the light and crossing so short that it can not hold a truck?
2) why did the light change so fast that the truck could not go from the crossing to through the intersection in a timely manner, or did it change due to being tied to the crossing signal system?
3) how fast was the train going that such an impact would uncouple the 6 cars after the engine?
4) will this force the city to do something about this intersection?

[bpickering]

You can get it for free from http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?rf=http://www.msn.com/

Brian Pickering

[retsignalmtr]

screw cnn. i saw the video from the two sides on fox news several times yesterday and today for nothing.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rails5

When I tried to view this video, I got a message that I need to be a paid subscriber to RealOne Superpass or CNN Newspass. What gives?

You have to be to be a paid subscriber to RealOne Superpass or CNN Newspass. Much of CNN's video is this way - you don't get anything for nothing I guess.

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

When I tried to view this video, I got a message that I need to be a paid subscriber to RealOne Superpass or CNN Newspass. What gives?

[Anonymous]

Just what part of the "Do Not Stop On Tracks" sign on the crossing signal (clearly visible on the video) did that driver fail to understand?

[Anonymous]

I live very close to this area - it's like 5 minutes from me, so it was on the news.

Now it makes sense - on our local news, they showed the crash from two different camera angles! So someone had cameras already set up for that. Now I get it.

[AntonioFP45]

FUNDY!

You'd better run, now

The PC police are going to put a warrant out for you![:O][:X][:I][:o)][(-D]

[Anonymous]

Notice the driver was a "she". Nuff said!

Bob Boudreau

[darkstar974]

Well I've seen this on the news and it was on entertainment tonight here in Ohio. Now I'm no detective but it looked to me like she was stopped to far up when the crossing gates came down, cause it looked like they hit the top of her rig as she was going through the red light. Good thing nobody was seriously hurt though there was a good bit of strawberry jam on the road. lol

Dark

[cwclark]

I saw that on the news yesterday..that was awesome!...like they say..a train hitting a vehicle is like a vehicle rolling over an aluminum coke can...good thing no one was seriously hurt...moral to the story?...don't park and wait to go on the RR tracks even if you do have a green light!...chuck

[Anonymous]

I saw the video a few times yesterday. That was pretty good. It was some lady driving the truck and kept going because the street light was green but the gates were flashing and coming down. I dont know but I would have stopped!! She was not hurt thogh. The truck back section was demolished

[Anonymous]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/18/crash.video.ap/index.html