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Amtrak #80 Carolinian hits tractor trailer.

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[quote user="BaltACD"] NC Trooper should have requested the railroad hold traffic for the safe passage of the load.  Railroads honor such requests from local authorities.  This incident has been caused by Trooper failing to protect the movement of the oversized load across the tracks. [/quote] The trooper appears to have made a mistake. But it would be prudent to wait for the investigation to make a definitive conclusion.  But the cause may go deeper.  Based on what I read, the oversize load was so large that the truck could not navigate the turn.  It needed to back up and have another go at it.  But traffic behind it had stacked up, and the truck could not back-up.  Which raises a point!   Why are these huge, oversized loads permitted on the highways?  Is the permitting of these huge loads a root or contributing cause of the accident? In Texas I have seen oversize loads that take up more than a lane and a half on the Interstate.  Getting around them is dicey.  And when they are coming at you on a two lane road in west Texas, for example, many times you have to take to the shoulder to avoid being clobbered.  I suspect that the truckers that haul oversized loads have pressured the legislature in Texas, at least, to allow ever larger loads.  I wonder whether it is true in other states?
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