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On Friday, November 16, 2012 9:15:39 AM UTC-5, Casey Jones wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-veterans.html

That story is so f*cked up you can't believe a word it says.

If that train was moving at 60MPH, there is NOTHING the train crew could
have done. It takes over a mile to stop a train at 60MPH.

If the train was moving at 60MPH, that trailer would be a mile down the
road, and twisted up like a pretzel. The death toll would be much higher,
as in, everybody including the truck driver. From the pictures, looks like
some chairs were knocked over.

I bet it was moving at more like 6MPH, not 60.

If the lights and gates were working, what the hell was the truck doing
crossing the tracks?

Train was traveling 68 MPH and the data recorder shows the breaks were hard
down for some distance.

The truck was reported by witnesses as being on the tracks when the warning
lights came on the and the gates came down.

FWIW the area of tack and the crossing has a long history of train/vehicle
impacts. This is the first with fatalities.

An official report will be several months out.