Four people are dead and 17 people have been transported to a hospital from the accident, according to a city spokesman.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:59 PM
Four people are dead and 17 people have been transported to a hospital from the accident, according to a city spokesman.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 09:15 PM
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4 killed after train hits truck during Texas parade saluting U.S. troops
A train rammed into a flatbed truck carrying participants in a West Texas parade saluting U.S. troops on Thursday, killing four people and leaving at least 17 hospitalized, a police spokesman said.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 05:56 PM
Posted 18 November 2012 - 09:01 AM
Complete article.Officials: Vets' float crossed track after signals
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- A parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going off, investigators said Saturday.
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. . . The second float didn't enter the tracks until several seconds after the warning system went off, the NTSB said. By that time, the guardrail was lowering.
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The timeline was pieced together by combining information from a video camera mounted on the front of the train, another one on a sheriff's car and a data recorder that acts like an airplane's black box, activating when the train blared the horn, NTSB member Mark Rosekind said.
Posted 18 November 2012 - 08:58 PM
Continue.Parade where vets killed used route for 3 years
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- Organizers of a parade in West Texas in which four U.S. military veterans were killed when a train plowed into a truck had been using the same route for three years, investigators said Sunday.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Mark Rosekind also announced that oilfield services company Smith Industries was the owner of the truck that served as the float the veterans were on during Thursday's parade in Midland.
Rosekind said the company was cooperating with investigators, who expect to interview the driver on Monday. The NTSB declined to release the driver's name, and Rosekind said investigators don't know if the driver worked for Smith Industries.
Posted 03 January 2013 - 12:38 PM
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Fatal veteran train crash to go to Texas grand jury
A Texas prosecutor says a grand jury will consider the case involving a train collision that killed four veterans who were riding on a parade float.
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OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 31 October 2013 - 05:25 PM
Posted 05 November 2013 - 10:50 PM
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Posted 05 November 2013 - 10:54 PM
Complete article.NTSB faults parade plans in fatal train collision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An oncoming freight train sounded its warning, and track guard gates started to descend. But the crowd was cheering, a marching band was playing, the lights of a police escort were flashing and a truck driver towing a parade float of wounded veterans and their wives in Midland, Texas, advanced heedlessly into the crossing.
The train rammed the float at 62 mph, killing four veterans and injuring 11 other veterans and their wives.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday faulted parade organizers and city officials for their lack of safety planning, not the truck driver towing the float.
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The train's engineer sounded the locomotive's horn and pulled the emergency brake seconds before the collision, but was unable to stop in time. The first truck towing a float, which was in front of the truck that was struck, was fitted with a train horn that had been sounding throughout the parade, yet another reason why the driver of the truck that was struck didn't register the danger until it was too late, investigators said.
Posted 15 November 2013 - 08:50 PM
Train Warnings Fall Short Of State Standards, Widow: “This Is A Definite Wrong”
“I thought it was coming slow and he pushed me and said, ‘Jump, Angie! Jump,’ and that’s the last thing he said to me…”
Angie Boivin cried as she recalled, in an exclusive interview with CBS 11’s I-Team, the train accident a year ago in Midland that killed her husband, Larry Boivin, and three other veterans.
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Lakewood, NJ
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