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Heart-stopping moment Amtrak train slams
into semi-truck car hauler at Oklahoma
railroad crossing - sending cars flying
and leaving five people injured

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 10/17/2021 5:16:21 PM

Dramatic footage has captured the moment an Amtrak train slammed into a semi-truck car hauler at a railroad crossing near the Oklahoma-Texas border, sending cars flying into the air and leaving four people injured. Amtrak Train 822, which runs through Fort Worth, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was passing through Thackerville when it slammed into a tractor trailer that got stuck on the track. The cars on the back of the trailer are sent flying and the rig disintegrates into a cloud of debris.

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Glad that there were only minor injuries. That doesn't even look like a road a car hauler would be on. Wonder if the driver was looking for a shortcut around traffic.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ribicon 10/17/2021 5:24:50 PM (No. 949061)
The wrecks will be far more spectacular once the high-speed, full-auto assault trains get rolling.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 10/17/2021 5:46:41 PM (No. 949084)
Whole lot of energy in trains and big trucks. Fortunate that there were no deaths and so few injuries, actually. So much energy to dissipate. In college, I once came on the scene of a very recent low speed train wreck. A solo locomotive had struck a fully loaded cement truck. Both were there, "dead", each lying on it's side, slightly smoking. After noting that nobody seemed injured, it struck me as funny. Like two T Rex's who had fought to a draw.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Corndoggies 10/17/2021 5:52:40 PM (No. 949087)
Well OP a good truck driver wouldn’t use that road but there are so many fresh off the boat drivers nowadays, all bets are off. And many of them can’t even speak English which means they can’t read road signs either. It’s a travesty what’s become of the trucking industry. Don’t even get me started on weight limits for old bridges or tunnel heights.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 10/17/2021 6:16:07 PM (No. 949104)
A driller I worked with in the oil patch was driving a tank of diesel that got stuck on the tracks. The train didn't stop. Conflagration ensued and the crematorium had a head start.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Birddog 10/17/2021 6:34:56 PM (No. 949116)
Poorly captioned, Driver is out of the truck, up on the tracks, jumping up and down trying to wave the train to a stop...pretty high pitched OooooNoooo's. Thackervillie is in in oxbow of the Red River, sort of a pocket of Oklahoma surrounded by Texas, Tiny town, only about 400people. The tracks are west of town, west of both I35 and hwy 77...no CLUE what the driver was doing out there, everything, including the Casino are right between the two highways. Though there "Might" be some "private entertainment" out that way...after all it is "Love County".
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Reply 6 - Posted by: hershey 10/17/2021 9:47:37 PM (No. 949266)
Amtrack's been having some difficulty lately eh?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/17/2021 11:41:30 PM (No. 949339)
#6, hard to blame Amtrak for a semi-truck stuck on their tracks. Truck driver's fault, it would seem.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: judy 10/18/2021 3:28:06 AM (No. 949402)
Why do they always say...train run into vehicles....isn’t it the other way...after all the train was in his lane...the tracks
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