150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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. [link to www.rgj.com] :meisad: |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1186514 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1186514Seriously, I hope for the best of those in the accident. Thanks....I've been debating wether or not to see that movie. And thanks for the well wishes. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1441855 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 05:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855Only 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? 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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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1207809 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains NTSB says "numerous fatalities and multiple injuries" after train accident in Nevada [link to twitter.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1441855 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains [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. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains How the fuck does a semi crash into a train that's on a berm 1/2 mile from any paved road?! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1297860I 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. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains [link to www.news10.net] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855Check 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. 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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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains either he tried to run it or it was intentional Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441462I 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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Seamus User ID: 989297 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains [link to www.news10.net] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855Check 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. 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...... Last Edited by Seamus on 06/24/2011 06:54 PM 'When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.' Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law' 1850 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." JohnSwinton, 1830-1901, Former chief-of-staff New York Times ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has wantonly produced ... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United States), or the establishment of another like it." Andrew Jackson (December 2, 1834) |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains [link to www.news10.net] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1441855Check 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. 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?) 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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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 06:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains Most likely a terrorist attack. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1101793Naaaaah. Raw video at link..... [link to www.lahontanvalleynews.com] Lot o' smoke. |
de38always User ID: 1235049 ![]() 06/24/2011 07:00 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains How the fuck does a semi crash into a train that's on a berm 1/2 mile from any paved road?! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1297860I 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. That picture does look weird. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 07:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1431203 ![]() 06/24/2011 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 150 people injured/4 dead...in Sacramento-bound Amtrak train-truck collision...people trapped in two of the passenger trains 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] |