PECOS, Texas – Federal officers investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific prepare and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base stated Friday they had been making an attempt to find out why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, resulting in the crash that derailed the prepare and propelled the large wind turbine base into the air.
Two staff of Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific had been killed within the collision Wednesday at a railway crossing in Pecos. The Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated it hasn’t but decided how lengthy the tractor-trailer was on the tracks earlier than the collision or if anybody tried to contact the railroad by way of the emergency quantity posted on the crossing.
The prepare was touring at about 68 mph (109 kph) earlier than the crew utilized emergency brakes previous to impression, the NTSB stated.
The collision triggered the wind turbine base to fly into a close-by constructing, NTSB stated. The Chamber of Commerce constructing was broken within the collision, and a Reeves County official has stated that some individuals within the constructing had been injured.
The Pecos police chief has stated the entire three accidents from the collision had been minor.
NTSB stated {that a} information recorder recovered from the wreckage is being transported to its lab.
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