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Prison bus collides with UP freight.

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Prison bus collides with UP freight.
Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:55 AM

Report that 8 prisoners and 2 correction officers killed.  Have not found any other media reports.  Some one find others to confirm ?

http://news.yahoo.com/bus-carrying-prisoners-involved-west-texas-fatal-wreck-163023806.html

EDIT--  Bus slid off ice covered I-20, down an embankment, and evidently onto  UP tracks.  Not clear if bus hit the train mid train or the train hit bus. If later with prisoners chained down they had no chance.

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:08 PM
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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:37 PM

No fault of UP's.

Reminds me of the opening scenes in the 1993 "The Fugitive" movie, starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/ 

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Posted by BigJim on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:25 PM
Shouldn't this read "Bus collides with UP train"?

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:15 PM

BigJim
Shouldn't this read "Bus collides with UP train"?

The news reports have been somewhat vague, but I'd interpret them to mean the bus hit the train, particularly in light of one report that some containers near the end of the train were damaged.  

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:26 PM

Article I read said the bus came off the Interstate and down an embankment to get on the railroad.

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Posted by Gramp on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:33 PM

Freak accident.  Sad.  Looks like bus bashed into one-two freight cars of train.  One news photo shows UPS trailer's side, end, and ceiling (TOFC, not double stack) ripped open like a sardine can with its contents spilling onto the ground.  A bunch of people aren't going to have their packages delivered on time or at all.  Wonder if they'll realize that they were involved?

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Posted by BigJim on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 6:55 PM

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:04 PM

If you look at that overpass (it's west of Odessa) in Google Earth street view, the guardrails aren't very high. Certainly not high enough to stop an out-of-control bus.

I was in Midland in 1984 when they had an ice storm. Texans ain't used to driving on it.

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Posted by zardoz on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:14 PM

Gramp

Freak accident.  Sad.  Looks like bus bashed into one-two freight cars of train.  One news photo shows UPS trailer's side, end, and ceiling (TOFC, not double stack) ripped open like a sardine can with its contents spilling onto the ground.  A bunch of people aren't going to have their packages delivered on time or at all.

 

Terrible! just terrible! All those poor dead and injured UPS packages. Just minding their own business. Then to have some bus attck them as they went for their train ride. Oh, my. Oh my.

 

 

 

Oh, yeah, by the way, ten people were killed, too.

 

And why were minimum security prisoners wearing handcuffs?  Since minimum security facilities have no walls or guard towers, inmates can leave whenever they want to (as long as they don't mind a further charge of escaping). They do not need to wait for a bus ride to stage a jail-break, unlike medium- or maximum-security inmates. To cuff minimum-security inmates while on a transport bus seems rather superfluous. 

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Posted by Gramp on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:05 PM

Get real!

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Posted by dakotafred on Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:41 AM

MAXIMUM bad luck. What are the odds?

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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:51 PM

Gramp

Get real!

 

Meaning????

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