摘要: |
An eastbound Union Pacific freight train, collided with a loaded sand truck, at a rail/highway grade crossing, on March 7, 2006, at 09:47 a.m. The accident occurred within the City of Yukon, Oklahoma, at mile post 503.7, on the Oklahoma City Subdivision, of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area, Wichita Service Unit. The site of the accident is located within the city limits of Yukon, Oklahoma. The driver of the highway vehicle was fatally injured. The loaded sand truck, was completely destroyed. The three crewmen of Union Pacific Train, RKCLC07, received multiple injuries, none of them life threatening. Both of the lead and pulling locomotives were up-ended, derailed and destroyed. The head thirty one cars were also derailed. At the time of the accident, it was daylight and clear, with strong winds out of the South at approximately 23 miles per hour. The temperature was 68 degrees fahrenheit. The accident was caused by failure of the highway vehicle, to yield to a train, at a rail/highway crossing. According to the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, the driver of the highway vehicle, was in violation of statute; 11-702a, of the Oklahoma Vehicle Laws, Failure to properly stop at a railroad crossing. Total estimated monetary damages were, $1,828,085.00 Investigations and inquiries, revealed that there was not a camera, nor any related photographic equipment located on either of the locomotives for purposes filming events, of which the locomotive and or train, was involved in. |