Post by Logan on May 6, 2016 1:16:08 GMT -6
A truck driver who didn’t set the emergency brakes on a truck, which later rolled downhill and crashed into the railroad tracks, likely led to the Cimarron train derailment in March, records show.
An Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed March 14 shortly after midnight. Six of the train’s 10 cars derailed, injuring 28 of the 144 people on board.
Damage on the tracks where the derailment occurred had already been tied to a truck owned by a company called Cimarron Crossing Feeders. Tire marks on scene matched the company’s 2004 Kenworth truck used to transport cattle feed.
Investigators also found cattle feed strewn on the tracks and matched fresh damage on the truck to the railroad track damage.
Read more here: www.kansas.com/news/state/article75627932.html
An Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed March 14 shortly after midnight. Six of the train’s 10 cars derailed, injuring 28 of the 144 people on board.
Damage on the tracks where the derailment occurred had already been tied to a truck owned by a company called Cimarron Crossing Feeders. Tire marks on scene matched the company’s 2004 Kenworth truck used to transport cattle feed.
Investigators also found cattle feed strewn on the tracks and matched fresh damage on the truck to the railroad track damage.
Read more here: www.kansas.com/news/state/article75627932.html