Just watching the WC again. The gates came down after the train was gone and the truck cab was sideways.
rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
I encountered a malfunction crossing once.. downtown Toronto.. The train would come through and THEN the lights and crossing arm would come down. Was like that for days until I called CN myself to tell them about it. Since then I always look carefully both ways before crossing because I don't want to be dead right.
Article seems to state that the crossing protection had been taken out of service by a UTA signalman account of continuous activation account of an ice storm.
The question then becomes, what sort of protection the signalman set up with the traffic controller to have trains stop and flag the crossing, or if the train involved overlooked the stop and flag order. Either way UTA is on the hook.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
richg1998 Just saw on the Weather Channel. Gates were up at crossing. http://fox13now.com/2017/01/24/caught-on-video-uta-frontrunner-train-crashes-into-fedex-truck/ Rich
Just saw on the Weather Channel. Gates were up at crossing.
http://fox13now.com/2017/01/24/caught-on-video-uta-frontrunner-train-crashes-into-fedex-truck/
Rich
Truck was a FedEx contractor rig. You can bet this will be one to be settled by lawyers. At least there were no really serious injuries, reported.
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