Administrator
Posted 09 July 2015 - 09:28 AM
New York Post, 7/8:
Tractor-trailer loses fight with freight train
A tractor-trailer burst into flames after it collided with a freight train in Queens early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The accident happened at about 12:45 a.m. on Rust Street and Maspeth Avenue in the Maspeth section of Queens.
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Note: This occurred on "freight-only" trackage of the LIRR - no impact on commuter train operations.
Administrator
Posted 09 July 2015 - 09:33 PM
WABC-TV New York, 7/9:
DashCam video from Queens freight train accident
MASPETH, N.Y. (WABC) -- Eyewitness News has obtained Dashcam video from a freight train accident in Queens.
It happened just before 1 a.m. Wednesday at Rust Street and Maspeth Avenue in Maspeth, when a freight train hauling trash collided with a tractor trailer.
From the video, it does not appear that the crossing gate came all the way down before the crash.
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Board Leader
Posted 13 July 2015 - 11:03 PM
WABC-TV, ABC-7 in New York, NY, 7/13/15:
Queens freight train that crashed into tractor-trailer was speeding
There are new details about a destructive collision between a train and a truck in Queens.
Investigators say that the train was speeding.
The crash was caught on video last week in Maspeth.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Administrator
Posted 27 September 2016 - 12:11 PM
QNS.com, Bayside, NY 9/26:
Engineer in Maspeth train-truck crash last year fled scene & hasn’t been seen since: report
He vanished without a trace.
The engineer involved in the fiery accident last year when a New York & Atlantic (NYA) Railway locomotive collided with a tractor-trailer in Maspeth went missing right after the accident and was then fired by the railroad company, the results from the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) safety review of the railroad company found.
“FRA was not able to interview the engineer involved in the accident as he went missing immediately after the accident,” the review stated. “In the aftermath of the accident, the locomotive engineer left the scene and did not return to the railway. NYA subsequently terminated his employment.”
The train conductor, however, was interviewed after the accident and raised safety concerns, questioning if he had been properly trained.
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