Reply to "Heart-stopping moment Amtrak train slams into semi-truck car hauler"

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@mowingman posted:
This was near my home. Local paper carried the news, as well as local TV stations. I go up that way a lot. There is no weigh station anywhere close to where this happened. Locals can not figure out what the heck this truck was doing going over that crossing. I believe there is even a warning sign about low trailers hanging up on tracks. Driver was probably doped up on something to stay awake.

The accident was said to have occurred in Thackerville, OK. If this is correct, looking at Google Maps does show a weigh station between the Thackerville interchange with Rte 153 and the next exit at Marietta, OK. You do have to be zoomed in fairly close for it to appear, otherwise all you see is an unmarked separation in the northbound/southbound lanes of I-35.

---PCJ

10/19/2111:04 AM

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