If a train is going westbound at 20 miles per hour and a tractor-trailer is heading southbound at (I’m not sure how many) miles per hour…
Never mind, I’m not going to try constructing one of those math problems.
I was en route to an 8:30 assignment this morning when my editor called and said a car hit a train at this-and-this intersection on the other side of town. When I arrived at that intersection, I saw nothing but found it hard to believe that the accident would have been cleaned up already — and then saw flashing lights about half a mile down a side street.
Turns out it wasn’t a car that hit the moving train — it was a tractor-trailer.
© 2011 by The York Dispatch. A UPS freight tractor trailer crashed into a train at the rail crossing on Zarfoss Drive near West Market Street on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. West Manchester Township police officer Keith Roehm said the truck driver, Monte Poff of Red Lion, was headed southbound on Zarfoss when he didn't see the rail crossing lights because the sun was in his eyes. No personal injuries were sustained, although the train lost a brake and dragged the truck about 130 yards before it came to a compete stop.
Train: 1, tractor-trailer: 0.
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Is that blood on the tracks?
There were no injuries, and it’s too light-red to be blood. I’d meant to ask the officer but it slipped my mind.
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More than likely it’s anti-freeze. Most trucks use an extended life coolant that’s red.
Good to know!
Well if the operations supervisor for UPS at Harley davidson didnt cover up several accidents last year maybe this wouldnt have happened.