GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Amateur video shows when a CSX Transportation train collides with truck hauling military artillery equipment at Goose Creek, The Post and Courier reports.
Goose Creek is located about 15 northwest of Charleston on a former Atlantic Coast Line route that also hosts Amtrak’s Silver Meteor.
The incident occurred Thursday at Liberty Hall Road, near the intersection of U.S. routes 52 and 176, at 12:40 p.m. The rail line reopened about 4 p.m.
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The question is,”How dumb do you want me to be?”
The answer, “How dumb can you get?”
Another avoidable accident, but then, aren’t most accidents avoidable if we don’t get in a hurry and think things through.
Commercial GPS and routing systems allow you to enter your weight, height and your load clearances and the system will direct you accordingly.
Rand McNally used to print a commercial drivers atlas for the United States that showed where the restrictions were. Looked similar to a pilots flight map that shows the air space restrictions.
Google Maps and other “free” personal mapping and direction tools *do not* let you set these kinds of filters. These commercial apps cost $$ because they work to keep their route data accurate.
Here’s some more video of the crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWC5Fw4yGCg
What a lack of details. Driver hurt? Train crew hurt? Loco damage? Train cars derailing? Road blockages? Police charges against driver? And an ineffective link to the purported film clip.
Very disappointing.
The Charleston Post & Courier, a good newspaper wrote there were no injuries to either CSX crew nor the truck driver, roads were block/delayed for a couple hours train proceeded and the military equipment on its way to Joint Base Charleston ( also the international airport).
Hope this helps in your questions. By the by that road is a great place to watch CSX/Amtrak ( in evening) go by.
Too bad that trains.com is broken as usual and the video doesn’t show on the web page no matter which browser I use, but all the advertising pop ups are there big as life!
Can almost bet this driver was following their GPS. GPS creates dumb drivers.
I know Kings Mountain, NC, put up barriers to prevent trucks from turning onto the crossings that had clearance issues. This was done because trucks kept using the crossings and getting hung up despite multiple warning signs.
The most common GPS system sends drivers four miles into Milwaukee County away when seeking our address (or that of my neighbors) in Waukesha County. Dumb as the machine is, the drivers are dumber. Anybody knows that our house number is almost 6,000 numbers too large to be found anywhere in Milwaukee County, no matter how long they keep looking. Not only is our town not in Milwaukee County, neither is our street address. Yet people keep following GPS like lemmings.
On a recent trip to a tourist site in Ireland, GPS led us to a large sign that read something like: “Your GPS is Wrong!! The entrance is 1/8 of a Mile Down the Road!!!” – from what I recall, it was a large, printed sign, and their road was gated off due to this.
Too bad we didn’t see the front of the locomotive. It seems that when these trucks carrying heavy loads like this, besides flowing the highway signs, should have to contact the railroad telling them they crossing their tracks so the railroad can stop trains before something like this happens.
US grade crossings (public and private crossings, all) are required to post emergency notification signs at grade crossings. These signs display the phone number to contact the railroad and a milepost location as well as a unique identification number to quickly identify the location. One of the two signs at this location was on the cantilever support pole which was demolished in the collision.
Well just some war damage to repair. Its war with the loco seemed to say the tank mostly won. Like the way the torrent spined!
Some heavy haul trailers have internal lifts to increase ground clearance.
This story made front page of BBC news, not to mention papers and news sites around the country but few if any make it clear the truck violated the low crossing sign, could leave some to think it was the trains fault, having said that the self-propelled cannon took it quite well.
Here in Germany it was reported correctly. “Truckdriver took a crossing which was not suitable for his low clearance lorry and got stuck”
I just wonder that there are no emergency call buttons or any other divice to contact the nearest signal box?
Watching the video from a cell phone from the Post and Courier there was a warning sign for low clearance vehicles at the crossing. I guess the truck driver said hell I can make it. WRONG!
This issue has come up before on these pages. CDL drivers are supposed to know about getting hung up on RR crossings. Highway departments that issue permits for heavy-haul are supposed to know their highways. Heavy-haul companies are supposed to scope out their routes in advance.