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150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains

 
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150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains
TRINITY, NV - Two people are dead after an Amtrak train and a semi-truck crashed in Churchill County said Nevada Highway Patrol.

Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez said the semi driver and one person on the train were killed in the 11:25 a.m. accident on U.S. 95 about 70 miles east of Reno.

The Reno Gazette Journal reports that an Amtrak conductor was killed in the crash.

About 150 passengers were injured and are being transported to a hospital, reports the Reno Gazette Journal. Lopez said the extent of their injuries is not known.
[link to www.news10.net]

Some pictures at link.
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Reno Fire Batallion Chief Tim Spencer said there were between three to four fatalities and unknown injuries at the scene. He said he didn't know enough to say whether or not the report of 150 potential patients was accurate.

Spencer said multiple train cars were on fire following the collision, but the fire has been extinguished. It's now a matter of attending to the injured, he said.
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Update at 1:44 p.m.: People are trapped in two of the passenger trains that are on fire, said Kurt Althof, a spokesman with Careflight. Reno Fire Chief Michael Hernandez said the department is sending one engine company, two water tenders and on chief officer to the wreck.


Dear lord, I hope they get them out safely. That update is about 40 mins. ago.
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Sounds like the start of a plot for a new movie. Oh wait, I guess it's already out. It's called "Super 8." By the way, save your money.

Seriously, I hope for the best of those in the accident.
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Sounds like the start of a plot for a new movie. Oh wait, I guess it's already out. It's called "Super 8." By the way, save your money.

Seriously, I hope for the best of those in the accident.
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Thanks....I've been debating wether or not to see that movie.

And thanks for the well wishes.
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Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains
This happened South of Lovelock, which is in the middle of nowhere! How did this happen? You can see for miles around you in this part of the country.

Only thing I can guess is that a truck was stalled on the tracks and the AMTRAK train could not stop.

How do you stall a tractor-trailer on the RR tracks?
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This happened South of Lovelock, which is in the middle of nowhere! How did this happen? You can see for miles around you in this part of the country.

Only thing I can guess is that a truck was stalled on the tracks and the AMTRAK train could not stop.

How do you stall a tractor-trailer on the RR tracks?
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Not sure how it happened. It was at the intersection.
But you're right....you can see for miles...and HEAR for that matter.
Very quiet out there. Strange accident.

They've got a couple of Blackhawk helicopters from the Fallon Navel base
acting as care-flights to Reno. That's good of them.

Two Blackhawk helicopters with passengers on board are on their way to Renown Regional Medical Center, said Kurt Althof, a spokesman with Careflight.


The helicopters are landing in Pickett Park, a grassy playground, across Mill Street because they are too large to land on the hospital’s heli-pad, he said.

Each helicopter can carry up to five patents, he said, but he did not know how many were on board.

[link to www.rgj.com]
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oopsie!
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Can anyone find tweets from people on the train?
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Is this a suicide terrorist attack?Why should cars be on fire?A truck with a suicide bomber and a bomb could have done this.Hope I am wrong!
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How the fuck does a semi crash into a train that's on a berm 1/2 mile from any paved road?!
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Looks like a bomb to me.
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NTSB says "numerous fatalities and multiple injuries" after train accident in Nevada

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[link to www.news10.net]

Check out pic #7. Remember yesterday on glp there was a post about all the military equipment being moved around the country? One post described what they called an "airplane wing" type of thing on a flatbed. Pic 7 looks like that description.
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How the fuck does a semi crash into a train that's on a berm 1/2 mile from any paved road?!
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I know, it looks weird. But if you look at the photo at this link...
[link to www.rgj.com]

You can see people walking away from the front of the train where the
hit occurred. The road is down that way.

I just wonder if the poor guy in the dump truck was trying to miss the
train by speeding.....or asleep at the wheel. That road out there will lull
anyone to sleep.
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[link to www.news10.net]

Check out pic #7. Remember yesterday on glp there was a post about all the military equipment being moved around the country? One post described what they called an "airplane wing" type of thing on a flatbed. Pic 7 looks like that description.
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I see what you mean. That is the bottom dump truck....most likely carrying
gravel. Just look a little closer...you'll see it.
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WTF was wrong with the truck driver/
This smells like a false flag Operation.
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nip this shin
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3:25 p.m. update: Authorities are saying the crossing gates at the crash intersection were working.


The railroad crossing involved in Friday’s Amtrak crash has had no accidents reported over the last 20 years, according to the Federal Railroad Safety Administration.

Data from the Amtrak train’s “black box,” interviews with passengers and others, inspections of equipment, reviewing communications and examining railroad records will be part of the accident investigation, the agency said.

More at link....
[link to www.rgj.com]
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either he tried to run it or it was intentional
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either he tried to run it or it was intentional
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I think the first....trying to beat the train.

"We were driving along on the train and apparently a truck decided that it was going to run the stop out in the middle of the desert -- nothing out here for miles," Jim Bickley told ABC News. "[It] hit the side of the Amtrak car. It was a coach car with people in it.

"My wife and I were in the fourth car, the observation car," he said. "We felt a jolt and a big ball of flames went by the left window with a bunch of black smoke. People yelled.

"There was a lot of smoke so we decided to stick our head out of one of the doors and saw the train on fire," Bickley said.
[link to abcnews.go.com]
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super 8
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bump
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Should have been one of the safest places to be on a train, prayers for those hurt and the families of those killed...
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[link to www.news10.net]

Check out pic #7. Remember yesterday on glp there was a post about all the military equipment being moved around the country? One post described what they called an "airplane wing" type of thing on a flatbed. Pic 7 looks like that description.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855


That's a gravel truck - the kind used to drop the rocks used to pave roads. You can see his second trailer in the pic.


The fact that the train is burning at the middle doesn't make a lot of sense (unless did the truck ram the middle of the train?)

Has to be intentional - even a mental midget knows you can't beat a train when it is already travelling over the crossing......

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[link to www.news10.net]

Check out pic #7. Remember yesterday on glp there was a post about all the military equipment being moved around the country? One post described what they called an "airplane wing" type of thing on a flatbed. Pic 7 looks like that description.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855


That's a gravel truck - the kind used to drop the rocks used to pave roads. You can see his second trailer in the pic.


The fact that the train is burning at the middle doesn't make a lot of sense (unless did the truck ram the middle of the train?)
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Yeah, those big, long gravel trucks haul back and forth between Trinity
and Fallon. And I suppose crashing into a train brings chance of fire.
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Most likely a terrorist attack.
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Most likely a terrorist attack.
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Naaaaah.

Raw video at link.....
[link to www.lahontanvalleynews.com]

Lot o' smoke.
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How the fuck does a semi crash into a train that's on a berm 1/2 mile from any paved road?!
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I know, it looks weird. But if you look at the photo at this link...
[link to www.rgj.com]

You can see people walking away from the front of the train where the
hit occurred. The road is down that way.

I just wonder if the poor guy in the dump truck was trying to miss the
train by speeding.....or asleep at the wheel. That road out there will lull
anyone to sleep.
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That picture does look weird.
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According to Lahontan Valley News editor Steve Ranson, the second and third cars on the train are “completely gutted and burnt out.”

The third train appears to have sustained heavy charring and smoke damage.


[link to www.lahontanvalleynews.com]
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3:55 p.m. update: Nine passengers were sent to Renown for treatment, said Dan Davis, hospital spokesman. Two were in critical condition, four in serious condition and three were in fair condition, he said.

“We’re expecting more by ground transportation, but we don’t know how many,” Davis said. Many of the injuries involved trauma fractures, he said.

[link to www.rgj.com]





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