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[KevinKorell]

This is not a duplicate post.... same crossing as earlier this week.

 

WESH-TV, Channel 2 in Orlando, FL, 1/12/24:

 

 

 2 dead in Brightline train crash days after deadly collision at same Melbourne crossing      

 

 

Police in Melbourne are investigating a Brightline train and vehicle crash at the very Melbourne crossing where one person died in a similar crash just days ago.

 

 

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[KevinKorell]

Florida Today,  Viera, FL, 1/12/24:

 

 

   Melbourne police investigate second fatal Brightline train collision in three days    

 

 

Two people were killed Friday in the collision of a Brightline train and vehicle that happened in the same location as a Wednesday crash which claimed the life of a 62-year-old man.

 

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[CNJRoss]

ABC News, 1/13/24

 

NTSB investigating after 3 killed in 2 high-speed train collisions at same rail crossing this week

 

NTSB will work to "better understand the safety issues at this crossing."

 

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating after three people were killed in two separate vehicle-train collisions at the same high-speed rail crossing in Florida this week.

 

SNIP

 

ABC Miami affiliate WPLG obtained surveillance footage of Wednesday's incident that was captured by a nearby business. The footage shows the SUV pass a waiting vehicle, then proceed past the crossing arm and flashing lights.

 

 

More here.  

[CNJRoss]

NTSB investigates fatalities at Florida's Brightline train crossing (youtube.com)

 

10 Tampa Bay

 

Jan 13, 2024

 

The National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday it will investigate two crashes involving Florida's Brightline train that killed three people at the same railroad crossing on the high speed train's route between Miami and Orlando.

 

The crashes happened Wednesday and Friday at a crossing along the U.S. 1 corridor in Melbourne, on Florida's Atlantic coast, where the high speed train passes through on its daily routes to and from South Florida. Since Brightline launched the 160-mile extension that links South Florida and Orlando in September, there have been five deaths, according to an Associated Press database.

 

Friday's crash killed driver Lisa Ann Batchelder, 52, and passenger Michael Anthony Degasperi, 54, both of Melbourne. On Wednesday, 62-year-old Charles Julian Phillips was killed when the vehicle he was driving was hit by the train. Three passengers in that vehicle were injured, according to Melbourne police.

 

[CNJRoss]

Engineer weighs in on deadly Brightline crashes (youtube.com)

 

WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando

 

Jan 15, 2024

10,324 views • Jan 15, 2024

 

A retired train engineer is weighing in on the two recent deadly Brightline crashes in Brevard County.

 

[KevinKorell]

WKMG-TV, Channel 6 in Orlando, FL, 2/8/24:

 

 

   Drivers in fatal Melbourne Brightline crashes drove around lowered gate, NTSB report says  

 

 

The drivers in separate fatal collisions with Brightline trains in Melbourne drove around the lowered rail crossing gates before the collisions, and in one case even drove around another vehicle to get to the tracks before the crash, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board.

 

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Cross-posted in the threads for each incident.