Authorities say at least six people, including three children, died after a freight train crashed into an SUV near a railroad crossing in Plant City, Florida. WFLA’s Nicole Rogers reports.
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#Florida #Train #News
Oh no may God have them and bless their families
00:37 They could have edited that sign out.
Wait! Through town they’re supposed to run that train at 30 miles per hour, or around a town
Such a trajedy! So sorry to hear this sad news. But…if they had just stopped, looked and listened just before the railroad crossing sign and stop signs. I hope negligence was not the cause.
The train engineer should of turned the steering wheel and swerved out of the way of the SUV,,,
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I hope everyone that sees this prays for the people that died. How very tragic 😢
I dont pray for stupid people, or anyone, only family
@J What a ridiculous thing to say….
CSX sucks. They don’t care about people.
Too many owners of SUV’s believe they’re immune to anything on the roads.
The only people to blame in these train versus car incidences are the people driving the car’s people are stupid
If you are dumb enough to get hit by a train, you should have never been issued a DL to begin with. So many of you need to be rested and forced to take driving school again.
Facts.
Condolence Button 🙏🥺🙏
The deepest condolences go out to all the families and friends in this heart wrenching event. These states (Florida, Mississippi, Missouri etc…have a horrible history of destruction. If the USA do not right their wrongs, unfortunate things will continue to happen 💁🏽💯Address the people that were non-migrants and the sweat and toil that they were forced to perform. Base on their heritage and color. Made it happen without no wages. Let that sink in😱💥💥💥💥
.very interesting comments
Close the border, if they hadn’t been here, there wouldn’t have been a crash.. We can’t expect third-worlders to thrive and contribute to a first-world nation.
“Dumb foreigners break the law and cause a train wreck.” There, fixed the title for you.
No lights or cross bars, too expensive. Family should sue Florida for billions. Just another day in the deregulated swamp.
THEY DID NOT SEE BOTH SIDE OF . DRIVER IS GUILTER TOO. IN THUS CASE
Florida. No regulation. No lights at that railroad crossing. Republican ideology costing more lives.
Most people over the driving age have enough sense to know you look and listen for trains at train crossing. The explosion of bright flashing lights and bars dropping down was because the ia seemed to have started plummeting in the 90s…. While at the same time, careless and w reckless driving became an epidemic.
@Cynical Cindy wrong. Every thing you said. Boomer.
Dad must have been a narcissistic fool. Shame on him. My prayers for his passengers and the engineer and conductor.
There’s something seriously wrong with whoever was driving that SUV. Yeah, maybe a crossing gate might have helped.. but maybe not.. people really are that stoopid.
Condolences.
So the DRIVER was at fault. Of course. No need to blame anyone else but the driver.
I would say hopefully they were democrat voters, but now they are definitely democrat voters.
They weren’t voters. They weren’t even citizens.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
NBC blows.
I feel bad for the conductor. he shouldn’t be put in this situation by someone else’s stupidity.
And it should be required, what should be required is how to drive over rail road crossing
It’s on every driving test in the nation. Bet the driver wasn’t licensed and barely spoke English. Just a hunch.
(Generic Florida comment because i perceive trump as my enemy)
Well thats what you get for uh, being Florida.
You know how sneaky those trains are. It’s not like they are big, slow and EXTREMELY loud or anything
Learn to drive!
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This is going to be one of these stories where unfortunately, you find out that this wasn’t an accident. Much like the mother in California who we thought “accidentally” drove off the cliff.
Omgosh! How horrific. I know of a young man, killed in the exact same way at a crossing, that was the same way. Just a stop sign, no bars or lights. Prayer’s for this family 😭
How can you not see a train?
As a Republican and proud NRA member, let this be a lesson to you. NEVER go anywhere without carrying several deadly weapons and dozens of extra rounds to protect yourself.
I guess those children’s lives weren’t worth the investment.
Happy quinceanera princess 🤣👏👏👏
YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT ACROSS BEFORE THE TRAIN REACHES YOU!! I wish people understood this more
Trying to find someone to blame besides the person who made the mistake. It’s horrifying, but someone literally ran a stop sign placed before the track. Didn’t look to see why the stop sign was there and ignored a train whistle. Unfortunately, even folks who live by them get complacent with these back road track’s and we stop paying attention. 😪
We need a serious scientific study on the brains of Floridians, I just don’t get it. A freight train moving at 55 mph can literally be heard a mile away, you can feel it in the ground, very bright lights, insanely loud horn, how does this happen!?
They weren’t Floridians. They were illegals and probably didn’t even speak English. Let alone understand basic traffic rules.
This is so awful. My heart breaks for the family and all involved. 💔
My heart breaks for the train engineer
Yeah the trained engineer was doing his job but the driver of the SUV obviously was distracted very badly did not know how to drive and took the lives of everybody else because of his ignorant actions
Way to blame the train drivers, NBC. This is the fault of the SUV driver.
I bet $100 that driver of the SUV was drunk
It’s like I’ve always said- “some people make waaaay too big of a deal over 15 year old girls’ birthday parties.”
Hopefully they’re not illegals.
You know they are when they don’t have enough sense to look before crossing a train track. Probably had 15 people in the suv too
@Cynical Cindy lol
The driver raced a train and lost.
I uhhhh…. I wouldn’t say a train crashes into a vehicle…. more like a vehicle went to the only place a train can go 🗿
The correct way of saying this story is “the SUV ignored the stop sign and tried crossing the tracks in front of an oncoming train – and lost.”
Ty
All railroad crosses must have a bridge
The driver is so dumb poor kids
Sure, blame it on the train. Maybe the train should’ve just stopped and let them pass…. Don’t blame the driver. Noooooo that would be waaayyyysist.
Daddy didn’t love you so now we all have to put up with you in society while you sit on social media platform looking for that attention he never gave you. Go drag your knuckles into another comment thread.
Safety devices are not required he says..
No because it’s a passive crossing, doesn’t need all the bells and whistles, that signage posted is 100% to code, u should know how to read English when u come to this country, and dont come illegally,
I’d say that Hillsboro needs to take Bidens infrastructure money and fix their RR crossings.
A train at the speed of 55 mph can be avoided if you are at a safe distance. How close was this train and car before collision? Also there should absolutely be guardrails and signals at EVERY crossing. If the driver slowed down is because he probably felt the tracks beneath him but completely missed the train that came out of nowhere. Rest in peace to the families involved.
Bunch of illegals probably..WHO CARES.. SHOULDN’T OF BEEN HERE ILLEGALLY
Unless there was just an unfortunate car malfunction, my bet is the driver was either way too distracted or under the influence. Condolences to the extended family and loved ones. What a tragedy.
your title has a dreadful victim blaming attitude to it.
Humanise cars, dehumanise and victm blame cyclists, pedetrians, trains…
gross
Stupid headline as a train is stuck on a track so the vehicle had to drive in front of it
The RR crossing was clearly marked. If you have a drivers license, you take RESPONSIBILITY for the car, those in it, and pay attention to highway and railroad signs. If you “don’t” have a drivers license, it’s still on you. Put the blame where it belongs – on the driver to decided to take the chance.
Why isn’t this being called a mass casualty crash, the same way anytime multiple people are shot it’s called a “mass shooting?” 🤔
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I want to see what the suv looks like. Post pics!!!!!
More illegals
Tragic! My heart goes out to the family. I hope the rest of the family is able to recover. Whoever privately owns the road should be sued penniless.
It’s the driver of the SUV’s fault, why should the owners of the private drive be sued? There were clear signage posted. It’s a horrible tragedy that could have been avoided had they been paying attention. .
@Ashlee Larson Wasn’t aware there was signage. In that case, oops, my bad.
Imagine if this 3rd world trash would have stayed in their own country, they would be alive today…
I find it strange the mail delivery person is able to avoid the trains day in and day out. Probably have a drivers license and English speaking.
Man… this is truly sad
“Train crashes into suv” 😞
The thing about railroad tracks is they’re for trains. Look twice,save your life.
Cops are happy this happened. They see it as more criminals off the streets. Because if you’re not a cop….. you’re a criminal. The only lives they care about are blue lives.
Final Destination deaths crazy 😢😢😢
You make it sound like the train
Deliberately crashed into the vehicle!
You can’t outrun a fast moving train. You will lose.
SUV driver’s fault 100%
SUV victims status. #Girlbossed.
The train crashed into it? How???
People in Florida especially seem to have difficulty with rail crossings.
So sad. There is a bunch if roads like these in texas as well.
Did they not know they were on the tracks?
Did the gates go down ???
driver had to be under the influence.
If only there was a way to make trains bigger, louder, easier to see…
The driver of the SUV was the father of the family—his three children, wife, and one of his children’s friends ejected out of the car and died on the scene. Initially the father survived but died overnight. Now the only survivor is his adult daughter’s boyfriend who was the passenger seat.
China may help!
STOP LOOK LISTEN.. it’s not just a suggestion at railroad crossings.
China train crash : Oh made in China! China train system is mediocre! China is evil!
US train crash : Its normal, it happens, still low probability compare to numbers of train rides scheduled over a year.
Hypocrisy at its best
Look both ways. It’s not hard.
kinda makes you wonder if it wasn’t intentional
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Well after this maybe people be more aware of the trains and stop at the stop signs.
When it happens that someone does something about it, mama is going to say “he was a good boy, he was trying to get a college scholarship “!
I bet they put those gates up now. Whoever is left in the family needs to sue.
Heartfelt condolences to their families. Rest in peace angels.
The girl at the end questioning why lights and crossing arms and such are not used at the site. Those are used in the cities and urban situations where traffic is heavy at crossings. STOP TRYING TO BLAME IT ON THE RAILROAD. Anybody with brains know that when you approach in a rural area that you slow down, look and listen both ways and stop if the lights and horns can be seen and heard. If you get impatient and try to out run the train, YOU WILL DIE. No sympathy….
Its only the people who ride suvs who expect that a train will stop so that they can go first
Well, there was an easily visible red stop sign there, that looks to have been ignored.
Don’t people STOP LOOK and LISTEN anymore in those situations?