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    Train Slams Into Parade Float - Kills 4 Veterans, Injures 16.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...6e2_story.html

    November 15th MIDLAND, Texas — Cheered on by a flag-waving crowd, a parade float filled with wounded veterans and their spouses was inching across a railroad track when the crossing gates began to lower and a freight train that seemed to come out of nowhere was suddenly bearing down on them, its horn blaring. Some of those seated on the float jumped off in wide-eyed terror just moments before the train crashed into the flatbed truck with a low whoosh and a thunderous crack.
    Four veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan — including an Army sergeant who apparently sacrificed his life to save his wife — were killed Thursday afternoon and 16 people were injured in a scene of both tragedy and heroism.
    That's so sad.

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    Yeah I saw this .... sad ..



    Wounded vet dies saving wife on parade float in Texas train accident

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-accident?lite

    The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

    At a news conference in Midland on Friday, NTSB spokesman Mark Rosekind said the crossing had flashing lights as well as gate arms, but board had not determined if those were functioning at the time of the accident.


    Rosekind said the locomotive had a forward-facing video camera and a sheriff's vehicle directly behind the float had a dashboard camera, and the images would be analyzed in Washington.


    He said there had been 10 train-vehicle collisions at that intersection between 1979 and 1997, but nothing there since then.
    None of the 10 collisions involved fatalities, he said.

    There have been 477 railway-related fatalities between January and August of this year, according to federal railroad safety data.
    Of those, 93 were related to Union Pacific Railroad, which covers 23 states across the western United States.

    In a statement, Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange said the crossing in Midland has a gate and lights.
    “Our preliminary investigation indicates that the lights and gates were operating at the time.

    Additionally our two person crew sounded the locomotive horn,” Lange said.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GrassrootsConservative View Post
    That's so sad.
    No . Your posts are sad .
    This was ghastly .

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    A tragedy for sure.

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