Footage of train accident (no major injuries)

HPC:Factor · Post by **HPC:Factor** » 17 Feb 2005 14:56

http://up3.fastuploads.com/amtrak_crash.wmv (3.8MB)

Nasty. Looks like the lorry got stuck at a red light with its trailer still on the tracks. No wonder someone was campaigning on how unsafe it was.

It sounds just like Playing TT though doesn't it

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 17 Feb 2005 15:04

i do hope more tragidies from TT dont happen in real life

i dont want UFO's landing in my back garden and being nuked by the airforce

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 17 Feb 2005 15:54

Was there any illegal immigrants in the trailer?

mp3Pro · Post by **mp3Pro** » 17 Feb 2005 16:57

wonder how much the documentory maker paid the truck driver to stop there?
seems suspiciously coincidental that they caught it from 2 different camera angles....

just my

YouTube · Post by **Geo Ghost** » 17 Feb 2005 19:33

yea, that is kinda odd, but it seems every one has video cams with them now!
he did it on purpose, the truck stalled, out of fuel, got caught on the bump of the track, heck theres many possibilities

Colonel Sheperd · Post by **Colonel Sheperd** » 17 Feb 2005 19:59

Man, what are those arms of a RR crossing in the US made of, paper??

mp3Pro · Post by **mp3Pro** » 17 Feb 2005 22:19

simmer wrote:Man, what are those arms of a RR crossing in the US made of, paper??

lightweight wood

HPC:Factor · Post by **HPC:Factor** » 17 Feb 2005 22:23

It is rather coincidental, and you'd think that the rig driver would have known the dimensions of his lorry and noticed...

If I remember rightly though, at a lot of gates in the States they don't barrier both sides of the carriage way, only the side that faces into the traffic...

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Where as here in the UK he would have had a gate come down on his roof, I guess in this example nothing similar happened.

PennCentral · Post by **PennCentral** » 18 Feb 2005 01:20

On the news tonight, they interviewed the guy who had been filming the crossing. He had been in an accident there about a month before (non train related), and had been filming the intersection daily to show how dangerous it was. Guess he was right.

HPC:Factor · Post by **HPC:Factor** » 18 Feb 2005 02:09

It made News 24 earlier as well. Seems to have gotten around a bit.

SpeciesX · Post by **SpeciesX** » 18 Feb 2005 05:36

Bad things happen to those that drive Freightliner trucks.

Darryl256 · Post by **Darryl256** » 18 Feb 2005 09:27

SpeciesX wrote:Bad things happen to those that drive Freightliner trucks.

Whats wrong with Freightliners???

SpeciesX · Post by **SpeciesX** » 18 Feb 2005 20:32

Darryl256 wrote:
SpeciesX wrote:Bad things happen to those that drive Freightliner trucks.
Whats wrong with Freightliners???

What isn't wrong with Freightliners

I'm just joking, Freightliners a solid truck but I prefer Internationals

way_2_fun · Post by **way_2_fun** » 20 Feb 2005 22:21

I seen that on the news. It claimed a 62 year old woman was driving the truck. Maybe that has something to do with the accident*?

*No offence to woman drivers, or senior drivers, or even senior-woman drivers.

Captain Kidd · Post by **Captain Kidd** » 21 Feb 2005 15:19

simmer wrote:Man, what are those arms of a RR crossing in the US made of, paper??

They're designed that way.

Image if they were metal.
Then imagine somebody ran their vehicle into it so that it pointed into the the oncoming locomotive (specifically the front windows or angled just right to go into the side window which is usually open)
Image the scene in Twister where the radio tower impaled the guy

Not a pretty picture.

They're there as a visual block only and to give if forced.

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