The Midland train accident is a train crossing accident that occurred on Nov. 15, 2012 in Midland, Texas. A freight train drove to a flatbed trailer used as a parade vehicle carrying 26 passengers (12 of them US Army veterans who had been injured in action), killing four people and wounding 16 people. The march was on its way to sponsored veterans' benefits. by a local charity event, Support/Hunt for Heroes.
Video Midland train crash
Accident
At 4:36 pm, on November 15, 2012, the Union Pacific Railroad railway headed east, traveling 62 kilometers per hour (100 km/h) on the way to Shreveport, Louisiana from Los Angeles, California, crashed into a flat semi-trailer bed that acted as a floating parade. Of the 26 passengers, 12 were US Army veterans wounded in action, 12 were couples of veterans, and two were civilian guards. The impact killed two veterans immediately and two more died later at Midland Memorial Hospital; sixteen other passengers were injured. Truck driver - Dale Hayden, 24-year-old US Army veteran - survived, as did train crew - Simon "Trey" Terrazas and Nathan Scott.
Defense Minister Leon Panetta made the statement expressing condolences to the victims.
Maps Midland train crash
Investigation of the National Transportation Safety Board
Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Agency were sent to the accident to determine the cause. In a press conference on November 17, NTSB member Mark Rosekind stated that the decorative vehicle started crossing the track after the warning bell and the lights had been activated and when the crossing gate was lowered. The lights and blinking bells start 20 seconds before the train enters the junction, and 7 seconds later the gate starts to fall. It's one second after that (12 seconds before impact) that the buoy starts across the track. The train honked 9 seconds before the crash; a few seconds later the engineer also activated the emergency brake train. NTSB based this conclusion on video evidence from a dash camera mounted on an escort police car, a front-mounted camera on the train, and a train data recorder.
In November 2013, the NTSB released its report, concluding that the possible cause of this collision was "the failure of Midland and the parade organizers," Support Show, Military Hunting, Inc. "(Support Show), to identify and mitigate the risks associated with routing the parade through highways - railroad crossing." NTSB also concluded that the Midland city failed to follow and enforce its own rules, allowing demonstration support to take place unlicensed from 2009 to 2012, and failed to notify the railroads before the parade.
Union Pacific installs and installs of intersection signals
After several months of inquiry, it is known that: 1) Union Pacific is replaced with taxpayer money to install a signal gateway at the intersection; 2) Union Pacific agrees with the State of Texas that when Union Pacific sets up a signal gateway at the intersection Union Pacific will program a signal to provide the rider with at least a 30 second warning time before the arrival of the train; 3) despite his agreement with the State of Texas that Union Pacific would program signals to give the rider at least 30 seconds of warning time, Union Pacific programmed the signal system to provide only 25 seconds of warning time;
Victim
The four veterans who were killed in the crash were all wounded in fighting abroad:
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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