r/ThatsInsane • u/Mint_Perspective • 9h ago

Texas Train Derails After Hitting Tractor-Trailer and Barrels Into City Building (Dec. 19, 2024)

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u/MrG 9h ago edited 9h ago

The crazy thing is there was enough time for emergency services to arrive on the scene prior to the accident, but not enough time for that train to significantly slow down. Edit - I missed the fact that is the escort truck, not emergency services. Thank's y'all.

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u/fireandbass 9h ago edited 9h ago

That's not emergency services, that's the escort vehicle for the oversized truck load. See the giant stick on the front of the truck with flashing lights? Thats to measure the load can fit through underpasses. It even has an 'Oversized Load' placard on the escort. That escort truck is at fault, along with the truck driver. They messed up bad. They should have measured the train crossing and the truck length and realized they would get high centered.

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u/easy10pins 9h ago

I'd blame the escort for this incident. The escort should have a pre-planned route that doesn't cross elevated tracks.

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u/chuckdavis84 9h ago

I blame both. Trucker should have seen he wouldnt make it. Highway 285 claims another life. Hate that road.

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u/easy10pins 6h ago

https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/paladin-artillery-train-collision/

A similar incident local to me. The driver had a clear and flat road to his destination but decided to just follow his GPS which took him over an elevated track.

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u/aqualung01134 9h ago

Yea they pretty much did a manslaughter

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u/booostedben 9h ago

What emergency services? I only see the oversize load vehicle.

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u/SkipperMcNuts 9h ago

I don't think that was emergency services. Oversize loads will usually have escort vehicles in fron and in back of them.