UP Hits water truck Video.

[BNSF650]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1654821 ... c.facebook

[Heavy Chevy]

We have seen it too many times. Trains just can not stop. This shows just how much force is involved. The train cut the truck in half. It is never good to see these things happen.

[Chessie8638]

Goes to show wide cabs work. Would be a different story with a spartan cab...

[Trainguy76]

Why'd it have to be a SD70M ?

[arizonachris]

What happened to "stop, look and listen"? I've known that since I was 3 years old! Good grief.

[Shortliner]

What happened to "stop, look and listen"? I've known that since I was 3 years old! Good grief.

People are impatient. They don't want to wait five minutes for a train to cross. So they think they can beat the train. However, what they don't realize is that the train is basically a multi-thousand ton missile that has the stopping power of bald tires on ice. It's going to destroy anything in it's path and it'll take a mile or more to stop.

What irritates me are the people who try to sue the railroad companies after these kind of accidents. I wish I could slap these people over and over again.

[shicoe30]

Ugh yeah I hear ya Shortliner. A soccer mom in a minivan stopped on the tracks in memorial day parade traffic around here back in 09' and her husband (who for some reason drove seperately) and a cop on parade duty got injured while trying to get the kids out. Everyone survived though the cop and husband were badly injured and now they're trying to sue CP for being careless. They're saying since CP was warned about the increased traffic they should have put a speed restriction on the area, and CP had already mandated extra horn blowing in the area because of the parade. They say if the train had been going slower it wouldn't have happened, but there's NO CHANCE that the train would have stopped in time, speed restriction or not. Just stupid. http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/03/31/elm-grove-wi-couple-files-personal-injury-suit-canadian-pacific-railway_201003313854.html People these days

[thecanadianrail]

Ugh yeah I hear ya Shortliner. A soccer mom in a minivan stopped on the tracks in memorial day parade traffic around here back in 09' and her husband (who for some reason drove seperately) and a cop on parade duty got injured while trying to get the kids out. Everyone survived though the cop and husband were badly injured and now they're trying to sue CP for being careless. They're saying since CP was warned about the increased traffic they should have put a speed restriction on the area, and CP had already mandated extra horn blowing in the area because of the parade. They say if the train had been going slower it wouldn't have happened, but there's NO CHANCE that the train would have stopped in time, speed restriction or not. Just stupid. http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/03/31/elm-grove-wi-couple-files-personal-injury-suit-canadian-pacific-railway_201003313854.html People these days

HAH, stupid people! It is stated in the traffic rules that it is a felony to stop on a railway crossing. (at least it is here) truthfully you should alwayse wait for enough room on the other side of the crossing to cross in this case, they said they got stuck on the tracks? Bull ****, just an excuse to try and get some money. as for the police, they actualy don't have any juristiction on railway speedlimits and certan parts of operations, including traffic crossings. HUR DUR! just needed to vent a little bit, these people just make me angry!

[arizonachris]

HAH, stupid people! It is stated in the traffic rules that it is a felony to stop on a railway crossing. (at least it is here) truthfully you should alwayse wait for enough room on the other side of the crossing to cross in this case, they said they got stuck on the tracks? Bull ****, just an excuse to try and get some money. as for the police, they actualy don't have any juristiction on railway speedlimits and certan parts of operations, including traffic crossings. HUR DUR! just needed to vent a little bit, these people just make me angry!

Oh, I got a better one than that. Someone buys a house next to LAX. It's an airport. Jets make noise. Lots of noise. LAX been there for a long time. Let's sue LAX for noise.

You will never, ever catch me on a rail crossing sitting in traffic. The guy behind me can get ticked I didn't move up. I don't care. I want to be around to give all of y'all a hard time for years to come.

[mapitts]

If you take careful notice on Youtube, the railroads are tired of the stupid lawsuits and have been in the process of mounting cameras in the cab. Kind of like police cars. The cameras even have sound to back up what ever the event recorder says. The camera is even in the cab of some of our locomotive cabs in Railworks. Some of the Dash-9's have it as well as the SD70ACe's. Look the far left of the center windshield post on the engineers side. There it is hanging from the the overhang.