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2024-04-20 09:30:38 -

$1.7 million awarded to man who says truck driver’s train horn caused hearing loss
A Mississippi jury sided with a man who said that a truck driver’s train horn blast caused him permanent hearing loss. Mississippi resident Jerry Kelly was awarded $1,787,597 by a jury following a lawsuit brought against Jerry Garland. On May 4, 2020, both Kelly and Garland were on a job site in Florence, Mississippi, working for commercial asphalt company Adcamp....

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2022-05-24 15:27:15 -

Driver killed, train derailed in collision between dump truck and train on private road
A dump truck driver was killed in Illinois on Monday morning after colliding with a train at a railroad crossing on a private road. The accident happened on May 23rd in Hainesville, Illinois just before 7 a.m. According to ABC 7 News, the dump truck was traveling on a small, private road that crosses the train tracks along Route 120 just west of Route 134 when it was struck...

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2024-03-13 13:28:52 -

Fallen tree pins dump truck dangerously close to train tracks
Fallen tree pins dump truck dangerously close to train tracks during high winds in Pennsylvania on Monday. The incident occurred on March 11th in South Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania during a day of strong wind gusts in the area. “The driver was driving past the tree, came down landed on top of the truck,” said Western Berks Fire Commissioner Jared Renshaw...

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2022-06-06 21:57:34 -

Iowa DOT reminds truckers about railroad crossing rules following truck vs. train crash
Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Enforcement (Iowa DOT MVE) recently issued a reminder to truck drivers about using extra caution when crossing railroad tracks. A June 2, 2022, social media post from Iowa DOT MVE featured several photos from a recent truck vs. train collision. The post reads: An unfortunate reminder that railroad crossings demand everyone’s attention 100% of...

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2022-03-15 18:18:02 -

Man fatally struck by train while filling tractor trailer with grain
Indiana police say a man lost his life in an accident involving a train in Hagerstown on Monday. Shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday, March 14, a Norfolk Southern Train Conductor contacted Wayne County authorities to advise that a person had been struck by the train in the area of 4379 North Jacksonburg Road in Hagerstown, Indiana. Wayne County Sheriff’s Department (WCSD) deputies...

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2024-08-16 00:58:12 -

One dead following train crash and derailment in Sheboygan Wednesday afternoon
TOWN OF SHERMAN, Wis. — A 66-year-old Kewaskum driver of a semi-truck died in a crash involving a Wisconsin Southern train Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened just after 2:00 PM. According to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office, six train cars and the engine derailed. One of those cars lost a portion of the plastic pellet load it was carrying.There were 22 cars, total, in the...

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2022-06-29 22:26:32 -

Several dead after passenger train derails in crash with dump truck
Multiple people are dead after a train struck a dump truck at a public crossing in Missouri on Monday afternoon. The incident happened at 1:42 p.m. on Monday, June 27th near Mendon, Missouri. According to SF Gate, the dump truck was hauling some sort of rocks at the time of the crash, which derailed eight train cars and locomotives. The truck driver died in the crash,...

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2023-05-13 17:43:02 -

Train collides with 2 tractor-trailers near Baltimore; one driver injured
A CSX freight train struck two tractor-trailers on a crossing in a Baltimore suburb earlier this week, sending one driver to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday afternoon when the train struck two tractor-trailers on a private road in an industrial area of Rosedale about six miles northeast of Baltimore. Witnesses told a reporter from a local television station that trees...

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2022-07-12 15:11:05 -

Truck driver killed in collision with train in Oklahoma
A truck driver lost his life in Grady County, Oklahoma, on Monday afternoon after his vehicle was struck by a train. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. on July 11 north of Chickasha, Oklahoma. Authorities say that 45 year old Troy R. Zielinski was driving a gravel truck westbound on County Road 1300 when his truck was struck on the passenger side of the cab by a train. ...

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2023-04-17 21:16:01 -

Truck driver reportedly parked on tracks, was in sleeper, when train strike occurred
A truck driver was charged following a train vs. truck crash in Tennessee over the weekend, according to reports. The crash occurred at 7:15 a.m. on Saturday, April 15, near Harriman, Tennessee when a Norfolk Southern train struck the trailer of a semi truck. According to a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) accident report obtained by local outlet WVLT, 41 year old...

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2024-03-18 14:24:15 -

Trucker uses train horn to give car driver a lesson in merging
A truck driver said not just “no” but “hell no” to a car driver who tried to sneak in front of him in this dash cam video. The video was shared in March 2020 by Facebook user Brad Pletcher, who writes, “if you wanna play stupid games, I’ll make sure you win a stupid prize. I’ll hit you with the train horns till the low air buzzer comes on...

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2022-09-03 13:21:01 -

VIDEO: Train barrels through truck stuck on tracks in Texas
Another driver captured video of a train vs. truck collision that occurred in Randall County, Texas, this week. The incident occurred around 3:20 p.m. on August 31 at Brown Road and Highway 60 near Canyon, Texas. The underside of the belly dump trailer got caught on the tracks as the truck crossed over, according to ABC7. The truck driver was able to get out of the...

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2022-10-15 20:53:42 -

VIDEO: Truck hauling an oversized load gets pummeled by 50 MPH freight train
A bystander captured video of the moment that a stuck truck was violently struck by an oncoming train in Texas. Here’s what happened according to the video description: “A train hit a truck that was stuck on the tracks in Fabens, Texas on October 9, 2022. The truck hauling an oversized load on a Lowboy trailer was stuck for 10 minutes before the train hit it at...

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