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#11 CNJRoss

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Posted 22 February 2018 - 11:26 AM

Progressive Railroading 2/22/2018:

 
NTSB: Truck was on tracks, gates were down before Amtrak crash
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The front axle of the lead locomotive derailed as the train continued moving. Photo – NTSB

 

A garbage truck involved in a fatal Amtrak accident late last month had entered a grade crossing after the warning gates were lowered, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced yesterday.

 

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The grade crossing is active and includes advance warning signs and pavement markings on its approach. The crossing also is equipped with crossbuck signs, warning lights, bells and gates.

Data from the train's forward-facing camera inside the locomotive showed that as the crossing came into view, the gates were down and the garbage truck was on the grade crossing. Witnesses to the crash reported that the truck had entered the crossing after the gates were down.

 

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Posted 22 February 2018 - 12:09 PM

NTSB Wire 2/22/18:  NTSB Issues Prelim Report of Crozet, VA, Hwy–Rail Grade Crossing Accident

 

 

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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD UPDATE

 

 

NTSB Issues Preliminary Report of Crozet, VA, Highway–Railroad Grade Crossing Accident

 

 

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, about 11:16 a.m., a 2018 Freightliner truck equipped with a McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing refuse body was traveling southbound on Lanetown Road in Albemarle County near Crozet, Virginia. At the same time, westbound Congressional Special Amtrak Train 923, operated by Amtrak and consisting of two locomotives and eight passenger cars, was approaching the highway–railroad grade crossing. Witnesses to the crash reported that the refuse truck entered the crossing after the gates were down.

 

 

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Posted 27 February 2018 - 05:07 PM

Richmond, VA Times-Dispatch, 2/26/18:

 


Last person hospitalized after fatal Amtrak wreck in Crozet is released        

 

After nearly a month, the last person hospitalized after the Jan. 31 crash between a garbage truck and an Amtrak train in Crozet has been discharged from the University of Virginia Medical Center.

 

 

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Posted 08 June 2018 - 05:49 PM

Roanoke, VA Times, 6/8/18:

 

 

Garbage truck driver indicted in fatal train crash in Crozet

 

 

The driver of a garbage truck that collided with a train carrying Republican lawmakers and staff in January has been indicted by an Albemarle County grand jury.

 

 

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Posted 09 September 2018 - 03:39 PM

WCAV-TV Charlottsville, VA 9/7/18:
 

Lawsuit claims railroad negligent in train-truck crash

 

 

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The father of a man seriously injured in a train-trash truck crash earlier this year has filed a lawsuit, claiming the railroad was negligent.

 

In a complaint filed in Albemarle County Circuit Court on Friday, Dennis James Eddy, the father of Dennis James Patrick Eddy, says the crossing signal was not functioning at the time of the Jan. 31 crash.

 

According to the lawsuit, the Time Disposal truck crossed the white line at the Lanetown Road crossing when the crossing lights were not flashing and the arms were up.

 

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Posted 28 February 2019 - 08:35 PM

Richmond, VA Times-Dispatch, 2/27/19:

 


 

  Driver acquitted in Charlottesville-area crash with Amtrak train carrying members of Congress 

 

 

 

After more than five hours of deliberation Wednesday, a jury found a truck driver not guilty in a fatal crash involving an Amtrak train carrying members of Congress.

 

 

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Posted 20 March 2019 - 07:59 AM

AP via WTOP radio 3/19/19:
 

Feds release files on GOP train crash ahead of final report

 

 

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Federal investigators released nearly 100 documents Tuesday that detail last year’s fatal accident between a trash truck and an Amtrak train that was carrying Republican lawmakers in rural Virginia.

 

Photos, witness accounts and other information were made public ahead of a final report that will be released sometime soon, said Keith Holloway, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman.

 

The documents do not change the basics of what authorities say happened in January 2018: The train struck a trash truck that had entered a railroad crossing after the safety gates had come down.

 

But the various reports offer a minute-by-minute account of the tragedy from those on the train and people living nearby.  .  .  .

 

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NTSB Accident  HWY18MH005; Jan 31, 2018; Crozet, VA Docket

     

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Posted 21 March 2019 - 06:30 PM

NTSB 3/21/19:

 
Highway Accident Brief: Collision Between Passenger Train and Refuse Truck at Active Grade Crossing, Crozet, Virginia
 
Executive Summary

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, about 11:16 a.m., a 2018 Freightliner refuse truck operated by Time Disposal, LLC, was traveling south on Lanetown Road near Crozet, Virginia. The truck was occupied by a 30-year-old driver and two passengers, who were en route to help another crew collect refuse. The truck’s route required traversing a highway–railroad grade crossing on Lanetown Road, at railroad milepost 195.85 of the Buckingham Branch Railroad (BBR). The grade crossing is located on a curved segment of the track and is equipped with an active warning system consisting of flashing warning lights, bells, and gate arms that lower at a train’s approach.


Probable Cause

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the crash in Crozet, Virginia, was the truck driver’s decision to enter an active grade crossing and his inaction when he encountered obstacles while attempting to cross the railroad tracks, most likely due to his impairment from the combined effects of the drugs marijuana and gabapentin. Contributing to the severity of the injuries was the lack of seat belt use by the truck occupants.

 

 

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Posted 08 February 2020 - 06:23 PM

Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, 2/8/20:


 

  Five men sue driver of trash truck struck by Amtrak in 2018   

 

 

 

Two years after a train carrying a Republican congressional delegation collided with a trash truck, five more passengers have filed lawsuits targeting the driver, trash company and train conductor.

 

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Posted 01 September 2020 - 04:58 PM

Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, 8/29/20:


 

   Lawsuits over Crozet train wreck set for trial in 2021    

 

 

 

Four passengers of a train that struck a garbage truck in Crozet in 2018 will face the driver in court during separate civil trials next year.

 

 

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