Accident near Stuart FL

Its only big news here if its CSX or NS.

phillyreading posted:

Has anybody else heard about the freight train hitting a car or small truck at the crossing near (just north of Salerno Road, Seaward Ave.)Port Salerno FL? On the news they mentioned 2 people were killed there, possibly 2 men on their way to work. It was an FEC freight train verses a 1995 Dodge pick-up truck. The truck drove around the gates & flashing lights

Gee,,,,,,,imagine THAT!  Drove around the lowered gates AND flashing red lights and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,died.  The poor Engineer & Conductor.

and the accident shut down the FEC tracks for a couple hours.

I don't have the news clip but it was on a local station WPTV.com channel 5 in West Palm Beach FL.

Lee Fritz

FEC  CSX NS fan here...hate these stories

Darwin at work thinning out the bottom of the gene pool.

If they drove around the gates and flashing lights it doesn't sound like an "accident" to me

Hot Water posted:

phillyreading posted:

Has anybody else heard about the freight train hitting a car or small truck at the crossing near (just north of Salerno Road, Seaward Ave.)Port Salerno FL? On the news they mentioned 2 people were killed there, possibly 2 men on their way to work. It was an FEC freight train verses a 1995 Dodge pick-up truck. The truck drove around the gates & flashing lights

Gee,,,,,,,imagine THAT!  Drove around the lowered gates AND flashing red lights and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,died.  The poor Engineer & Conductor.

and the accident shut down the FEC tracks for a couple hours.

I don't have the news clip but it was on a local station WPTV.com channel 5 in West Palm Beach FL.

Lee Fritz

 

FEC uses a brakeman and an engineer, don't know for sure about the conductor or if he doubles as the brakeman. I have seen FEC couple and uncouple some freight cars in Stuart FL a few times.

Lee Fritz

Maybe the lights and gates weren't conspicuous enough ...

http://www.wptv.com/news/regio...county?autoplay=true

The incident occurred at 3:41 a.m. in Port Salerno.