Amtrak says several cars derailed on a passenger train after it hit a dump truck at a public crossing in Missouri. There are early reports of multiple injuries.
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Didn’t realize a dump truck could do that?!
Thus the name DUMP truck.
@Ja Tr, RN, MSN 👍 got that right!
What was the dump track doing there? This is not the first time a train is hitting a dump truck. Satan is definitely involved
You should see the school bus hit by a dump truck a few months ago but god has spoken right Republicans!
Hope the passengers are not pregnant and have a
Miscarriage. Felony Thanks trump
I still haven’t seen anything saying the dump truck had a driver. just that it was obstructing the rail and appeared to have big boulders in the back.
@Ghøst I’m very sorry for your loss please pass on my condolences
@Ghøst don’t know him but I live near where the accident happened
Yeah dangit. My friend was a passenger on this train and he told me the driver was dead right there.
I’m sorry, to anyone here who knew him, that he’s gone.
@Old Nick I’m
Sorry!
@Kellyyy,
Yeah this was really a terrible tragedy and was avoidable unfortunately.
It really can be stated that a lot of people got really lucky there too though. Try not to think too much about this sort of stuff though I guess, as there certainly is enough of it but we get along and keep going. 🥰👍
I can’t understand why the wealthiest Country in the world can’t come up with a safer railroad crossing system! Obviously there are flaws there.
@Western Ohio Interurban History I’m not saying that all. Make so they can’t
@gfydrama there was no gates at this accident spot. What are you talking about?
@I’mYourHuckleberry ok how should we do it
@Western Ohio Interurban History Stop having UFO hearings and voting no on infrastructure bills!
@gfydrama It’s called signing, loaning, and endebting yourself to your how printed currency since 1971. That’s why. Nothing new though, America just the patriot in the modern fiat money movement then.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
*Looks like the economy by this Xmas.*
Where is the actual dump truck? Even the ariel views I have seen don’t show a busted up dump truck anywhere. Just the axle.
Not much left it was near the road where it crosses the track almost unrecognizable as a truck. Track speed on that section of track is 79 MPH!
You can see the Passengers on that plane he said
and i thought i was the only one
That’s the longest plane I’ve ever seen.
Bro I knew I heard him say plane
must of been a typo on the teleprompter
Whoever put that dump truck there should be fired and prosecuted for all these people injured. I swear I’m sick and tired of these drivers who believe they’re above the law and cross the train tracks when a train is coming. C’mon, we can do better than this, and now look at what happened, innocent lives suffering
Yeah we should ban trains
@Aprile Cotton Mid opinion mid life
Take a pill Billy, it was the Biden Limited, it was bound to crash.
Ole Billy, same comment on every video Billy.
@Aprile Cotton real original
Joe: I fell off my bike
Amtrak: Hold my beer
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Bot Spotting!
anyone know what the locomotives were on the train?
Passengers on that plane.
you had one job.
We should ban trains.
No
That must have been the BIDEN LIMITED, what a train wreck.
Republican Express. Biggest train wreck – intentionally done.
Ivanka Limited, everyone can ride it
I think it was the Trump “Make Amtrack Great Again” Express.
that was a doozy
Biden’s America
Republican’s America. Soon to be Dominionist’s America.
This is what happens when a country leaves its public transport network, to market forces, doing no legislation for safety or investment.
@Byecats Stacey Same or similar problems in the UK. Our current Conservative government wants to save money on rail safety, something all previous governments of all parties had to spend on, after failing not to. So our rail staff have gone on strike, and our government pretends about train driver wages, when it’s actually about safety and the wages of other staff and they want to destroy pension rights of rail staff too. Right wing parties. 🙄🤨🤪
Or, when sociopaths are emboldened by a former president who glorifies violence.
There was no mention of a driver of the dump truck. Another comment mentioned this was the second such incident. I don’t know if that’s true, but I guess we’ll find out.
To the public? Amtrak is governed by the FRA.
No, this is what happens when a truck driver gets in too much of a hurry.
I would never ride on Amtrak. Their trains are always crashing or derailing for some reason.
Trains are too vulnerable.
I think people purpose leave their vehicles on tracks just to see what will happen.
The company that owns that truck better have a lot of money because I see tons of lawsuits coming
Improved infrastructure would help and yet Republicans tell US time and again we are in no need.
Does the US have a major railroad crossings problem? I saw many reports on the florida brightline as well. After watching these crossing i could not believe that this is allowed in a modern country. You can not trust idiots to stop, you have to make them to stop in the first place. “The weakest links ” approach i would say.
@Old Nick The good old “its a big country” excuse. Of course you don have to secure tracks in the wilderness of nowhere but a dump truck on train tracks is not a sign of wilderness but rather a sign of close civilization. No one would say such ignorant stuff when a plane crashed but trains oh boy “its different and the money”.
@Sun Rae,
K, but do the math. Tens of thousands of these types of crossings, upgraded to flashing lights and with they’re maintenance involved, even with no crossbeam this would cost a few billions.
The money simply isn’t there.
@Old Nick Whats the “math” on building safe roads for cars? You don´t have traffic lights , bridges or tunnels in the US as well? Or is math a special branch of science only applied on train infrastructure?
@Sun Rae The tracks at the point of the accident had crossing gates and flashing lights already, as did the brightline crossings. I’m not sure what exactly you’d want them to change?
@Sun Rae,
The ‘math’ certainly applies to a country with the size of the United States. It’s insanely large…
Hey buddy, that’s a TRAIN not a PLANE.
Fake news
Complete censorship
Stop dropping acid. Things will start to seem more real.
Got some
😢♥
0:23 he called it a plane
beautiful scenery
Im beyond curious how the engines themselves for the most part didn’t derail, but all the passengers did? Was the train traveling backwards or?
@Drewster327,
This is exactly what my friend Rob who was on the train said happened. Yep.
The engines hit the truck, and obviously so if you saw the pictures, then the cars all skipped the track and the engines drug the whole mess for about 1,500 ft.
Be careful out there buddy. Thanks for your insight.
*Rob was in the bottom coach seats of a car with thirteen people in there with him. The windows were history right off and they were real lucky not to get drug into the gravel sliding by he said. Gravel had filled most of the vestibule area and the door window was gone too so they more or less crawled through the window opening and over the built up gravel to exit.
👍☝✝️
@Drewster327 so it wasn’t infrastructure failure.
I did watch ‘unstoppable’ though, remake of ‘run away train’ movie, plus discovery channel. Plus videos where locomotive rails through farms and cuts through cow herd on track, you can actually hear parts of beef hitting Locomotive.
As long as it’s not infrastructure failure.
Train operator put the breaks in emergency, train hits truck engines slow down from impact cars keep going at high speed kinda like Semi jack kniving.
@Mark Kane,
Drewster was explaining what happened to the train. Nothing more. The cause is a completely different subject.
@BrandonTEP nope. You can see the engine damlaget in other videos.
He said plane
0:22 he literally called the train “a plane”
😂
Lmao!
NBC can always be trusted to bring the facts.
Sir Topman Hatt will NOT be amused!!!
Underrated comment.
Was a Johnson on board???
rusia did it
Crashes happen from rusia’s doings.
Please deportate all rusians asap
And fight rusia physically
My prayers go to everyone in that train but why couldn’t Joe Biden be on the train why why why why why
It’s such a pity that Ivanka and her Jewish husband weren’t on that train either hahahahahahahaha
Psychopath
It’s the Missouri compromise 🫢🤦♂️oh god …. 🙄
I really don’t understand how ANYONE can drive a vehicle through a railroad crossing without looking for a train. It always baffles me how someone will break down on the tracks or get hit by a train, absolute idiots.
it wasnt 100% the trucks fault. sure, he did forget to look and listen, but also the train was barreling down at 80mph and the grade crossing had no advanced warning systems like a bell, lights, or a gate. with a train coming that fast, it’s easy to overlook it until last minute
Could’ve been a suicide
That’s a fender bender!
Time to ban trains.
I agree. They are unsafe
@Western Ohio Interurban History And useless. I mean, if Amtrak could survive on its own, fine. But the government has to give it bailouts every few years. Just doesn’t make any sense to me. Passenger trains had their moment in the sun. It’s over.
Dump truck! Pretty big thing to hit. Esp if full
We are one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world but there are still areas that don’t have crossing barriers, flashing lights,etc. at their crossings? What happened, the funds that could have been spent on that ended up in some elected official’s bank account or something?
the crossing had crossing barriers, and flashing lights. The driver just ignored them. Weird that you’d make such extreme speculation on a situation you know literally nothing about.
Every crossing has signs. You NEVER cross RR tracks without stopping and looking carefully. It’s your responsibility to be a careful driver. It’s not the RR’s fault. 🇺🇸🦅
It’s Trump’s fault
Please stop with the at grade crossings.
What’s really weird is NBC said there was over “240 passengers on the Amtrak”, on their first news broadcast. This broadcast, was 2 hours after that, (also posted by NBC), and it says there was 207 passengers. Hmmm.
My neck and my back
I thought we had our independence long before the British empire could have left us with railroads we’re still using? Maybe we should share parts with India, the Middle East, and Africa?
Amtrak is trash…false flag for more government pork courtesy of the American taxpayers!!
What caused derailment? 😲
China can help!
Oh
Chez les gendarmes du monde que le train est déraillé, c’est pire que les pays du tiers monde, c’est incroyable pour un pays riche
AMTRAK CREW 2022 !!
We’re just a Amtrak crew
Racing down the track
Far from our families
Who will miss us till we’re back.
We’re running by the river
As it flows muddy brown
Everywhere at nighty
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As we glide across a silver bridge
Above the Mighty Mo.
What we’ll see when we look down
We never really know.
Behind us on those rolling wheels
Are cars with souls inside
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When we reach the station
We’ll head for the hotel
Crawl in bed all by ourselves
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Thank you Eli’s Dad for being so Respectful to the
truck drivers Family, Thank You to Eli at 15 yrs old
to give comfort and aid to the driver and
those other Boy Scouts Troop 73 & Troop 12 in
Appleton and others that helped people
involved in that accident where people
lost their lives and others injured in one
way or another..Condolences to the Families
of those lost and prayers for the injured
and their Families and to those also that
just experienced this tragic accident.
Count me out of riding trains… and planes.
So many deaths and injuries could be prevented if only trains and school buses would install seat belts. What’s so hard about that.
At first I thought this was just an accident but the way things have been going I wonder if this wasn’t done on purpose. Poor train. Just minding your own business watching the scenery and bam !!! Very scary. 🇺🇸🦅
“Multiple injured after dump truck derails train”!
People are in the comments here dissing train travel when it’s the most economically and environmentally friendly. This was on the driver , not the train. let’s talk about how many people die in car accidents daily due to negligence on a driver’s behalf. Or maybe let’s take a look into how many people survived this derailment as opposed to how many would have survived a plane crash? Train travel is the future, let go of the past. Ignorance is bliss though, so have fun with that. Rest in peace to everyone affected, but people need to realize the real issue.
To everyone blaming the ties since they are wooden:
It doesn’t matter, period. The dump truck was loaded which means when Amtrak’s light locomotives hit it, they were easily thrown off the rail thus taking the train with them. At 79+ miles an hour the train will destroy anything next to the railbed (including the rail) depending on the circumstance as it derails.
Honestly im starting to think the 79mph limit is nedded after seeing this if this was going top speed it could had been worse
Exact