Septic truck hit by train.

[eveled]

talk about a crappy day. I hope the driver recovers.

I hope the engineer had his windows closed.

 

[thedogdidit]

That truck looks like it had taco bell for lunch.
The median is gonna be a lush green for a while.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Saw this earlier...Cannot believe he didn't notice a freaking freight train?!!
What a shitty mess!

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Did the driver speak or read English?
"Yo no sabe nada"

 

[Fox Mike]

I can't believe I didn't hear a train whistle.

 

[Jakeintexas]

Boy the sh!t really hit the fan !

 

[eveled]

I know it takes a long time to stop a train, but it didn’t look like it was stopping at all.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

I grew up next to the railroad track.
I still have the house.
I have seen everything imaginable , from vehicles getting hit to suicides.
The train always wins.

 

[jimbo1096]

It would be pretty bad for the driver on that truck. But it was a certain look to the impact and the fact that the train didn’t seemed to react, It makes me wonder if it’s not AI.

 

[blume357]

Something smells here........
No, seriously... why was someone filming that? This does not seem to be a dash camera shot because the camera operator pans with the truck as it rolls.

 

[Watertender]

It would be pretty bad for the driver on that truck. But it was a certain look to the impact and the fact that the train seemed to react, It makes me wonder if it’s not AI.

The lead locomotive was the Nickel Plate Heritage Unit. I looked up the incident using that locomotive in my search. It's all over the train watching and railroad sites.
I'm picturing it as the proper Karma for my brother. He was killed by a garbage truck but a full septic tank pumper would have been perfect. I'll take what I can get though.

 

[Watertender]

Something smells here........
No, seriously... why was someone filming that? This does not seem to be a dash camera shot because the camera operator pans with the truck as it rolls.

The guy filming it is a railfan who told the news that he videos trains as a hobby.
It was a private rail crossing with no signal lights or gates.

 

[blume357]

The guy filming it is a railfan who told the news that he videos trains as a hobby.
It was a private rail crossing with no signal lights or gates.

that's kind of what I was thinking ... one of those train watching nuts.....

I grew up out in the country and my buddies and I had a club house just up the dirt road from a train track and we'd go down at night and try to shoot bottle rockets through the open doors of the empty freight cars.....seems everything is now containers locked onto flat beds....

 

[MaxMan]

I know it takes a long time to stop a train, but it didn’t look like it was stopping at all.

I don't blame him. Drive Ok though?

 

[xTopGun]

at the last second the driver realized what was going to happen and his last thought was - - - - - you know it, "OH SH!T" .....

 

[xTopGun]

I know it takes a long time to stop a train, but it didn’t look like it was stopping at all.

it probably took it at least a mile to stop . . . they don't stop on a dime just because something is in their path

 

[eveled]

it probably took it at least a mile to stop . . . they don't stop on a dime just because something is in their path

I know that, but usually you hear a difference in the way it sounds. As it transitions from power on to power off.

 

[coach]

it probably took it at least a mile to stop . . . they don't stop on a dime just because something is in their path

After seeing and smelling what was hit the urgency to stop probably wasn’t there.

 

[rcs9250]

Holy !!

 

[ProfessorWes]

Holy !!

That appears to have been precisely the reaction of the railfan filming the train. Who also probably got some of the spray himself, unless he had his windows closed.

As for the driver: What part of "stop, look and listen" do you not understand? Isn't it the law in most states for drivers of heavy trucks to stop at railroad crossings, even private crossings, and look before proceeding?

 

[xTopGun]

That appears to have been precisely the reaction of the railfan filming the train. Who also probably got some of the spray himself, unless he had his windows closed.

As for the driver: What part of "stop, look and listen" do you not understand? Isn't it the law in most states for drivers of heavy trucks to stop at railroad crossings, even private crossings, and look before proceeding?

perhaps the driver was another illegal.....

 

[rcs9250]

That appears to have been precisely the reaction of the railfan filming the train. Who also probably got some of the spray himself, unless he had his windows closed.

As for the driver: What part of "stop, look and listen" do you not understand? Isn't it the law in most states for drivers of heavy trucks to stop at railroad crossings, even private crossings, and look before proceeding?

Maybe, just maybe, he was faced.

 

[bedfordboy]

Hope the driver was wearing his brown pants and shirt that day… if he didn’t wear them into work he was surely wearing them on the way home

 

[mirglip]

Did the driver speak or read English?
"Yo no sabe nada"

I checked several news sources and none of them disclose the driver's name.....which is a good indication you may be right.

 

[redhawker]

Did the driver speak or read English?
"Yo no sabe nada"

They should probably give him the "Cat in the Hat" test if he recovers.

it probably took it at least a mile to stop . . . they don't stop on a dime just because something is in their path

Yeah, the engineer should have just swerved around the truck...right?

 

[WAYNO]

My BIL drove trains his whole life. He said log trucks were the only vehicles they feared hitting.

 

[eveled]

My BIL drove trains his whole life. He said log trucks were the only vehicles they feared hitting.

I would think school bus would be number 1.

 

[Watertender]

I would think school bus would be number 1.

For human destruction a school bus would be the worst thing. A log truck could have logs smash through the cab of the locomotive.
I knew a guy who was pulling 96 carloads of coal with a 2 locomotive power unit. He had a woman with 3 kids in a Dodge van go around a down set of caution gates while she was talking on her cellphone. He was eye to eye contact with her as the locomotive hit the van killing all 4 occupants.
He has had to have counseling to help him get through the incident. It has to be a horrible thing to live with.

 

[eveled]

For human destruction a school bus would be the worst thing. A log truck could have logs smash through the cab of the locomotive.
I knew a guy who was pulling 96 carloads of coal with a 2 locomotive power unit. He had a woman with 3 kids in a Dodge van go around a down set of caution gates while she was talking on her cellphone. He was eye to eye contact with her as the locomotive hit the van killing all 4 occupants.
He has had to have counseling to help him get through the incident. It has to be a horrible thing to live with.

Yes. I understood the danger of the logs. A very dense load, of projectiles or levers. I imagine the potential for derailment would be high too.

Of course nobody would want to hit a bus load of kids. But the engineer would be in little danger.

I can see being afraid of hitting either but the reasons are very different. I’m sure @WAYNO BIL was afraid of hitting either but was speaking of vehicles that could injure him.

Of course you could catch all manner of diseases from vaporizing a sewerage truck too.

 

[coach]

I would think school bus would be number 1.

While hitting a school bus would be horrible, the school buses around me are pretty good at stopping at all railroad crossings and opening the doors before proceeding.