Crash peels back trailer 'like a can of sardines'
WHITE SALMON, Wash. – A tweet from the Washington Department of Transportation nicely summed up a wreck on Thursday afternoon: “Holy cow. Train peeled back the semi trailer like a can of sardines!”
It’s not clear exactly how it happened, but somehow a truck ended up on the rail tracks where it was hit by a train.
The crash happened around 12:45 p.m. on SR 14 near White Salmon.
The truck’s trailer was ripped apart, but state troopers said nobody was hurt.
A department of transportation representative said the train has since been removed from the tracks and moved a bit to the east away from the crash scene.
A crew from the Department of Ecology was also called in to clean up some of the spilled fuel.
EB SR 14 still blocked for semi vs train. Holy cow. Train peeled back the semi trailer like a can of sardines! twitter.com/wsdot_sw/statu…
— WSDOT - SW Region (@wsdot_sw) February 8, 2013
Oops, got away from you a bit there. The laws of physics can be brutal, hope nobody was hurt.
Someone's in troooouuuubbllleeeeeeee
That must have been one rude wake up call for that nap!
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Visualize an empty aluminum beer can vs. Bluto's forehead in Animal House
The law of wheels: If it has more or bigger wheels, it has the right of way.
How the heck did the semi truck get on the rails? there is a barrier there.
@Exiled_Patriot "A department of transportation representative said the train has since been removed from the tracks and moved a bit to the east away from the crash scene."
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How did the semi truck get on the rails? Who cares! I want to know how the train was "removed from the tracks"! :-)
 @Exiled_Patriot Deregulation of the trucking industry, thats how.