Looking at the photos of the accident site it looks really wide open. Flat ground, visibility for miles. How do you not see a train coming?
Truck drivers don't give a fucccck
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Looking at the photos of the accident site it looks really wide open. Flat ground, visibility for miles. How do you not see a train coming?
It amazes me how often these trucks/semis get hit.Plus, a lot of those crossings in the middle of nowhere. Don't have signals or gates. Train just lays on its horn the whole time as a signal. Truck driver not paying attention just drives onto tracks. Truck finds out who is bigger and badder.
Look at the first pic bruh. Wouldn't matter since there's no rail. Ironically enough the engines appear to still be on the rail. It's whatever got caught underneath after impact that removed the ties/rail that caused the derailment.Why are there no autodecoupling device nowadays upon derailments?
Are trains really that fucking ancient?
We know at least the front car is going off the track, maybe a few more. Make the coupler breakaway and those cars derail and let the other ones fly by and if course lock the brakes.
Depending on the situation, I would imagine this engineer hit the train dynamic brakes and was gradually/incrementally applying the air brakes to full tilt (so as not to upset the apple cart), to at least make an effort to scrub some speed, but I'm sure impact was gonna happen regardless.
God damn there'd probably be so many more deaths if it had been a Hellpig parked on those tracks....
Truck drivers don't give a fucccck
looks like the brakes didnt do anything in that short of distanceKinda like all those Mr. Bults (MBI) drivers. They all think they're driving race cars...
Anyway, they did confirm the train was doing 89 mph 1/4 mile away from the crossing, they hit the horn, brakes and speed had dropped to 87 MPH by the time impact was made.