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NBC 4 New York
Two people were seriously injured in the crash in Little Falls, N.J., officials said.
An NJ Transit train full of commuters collided with a tractor-trailer in Little Falls, N.J., at the height of the Wednesday morning rush, injuring 10 people, including two seriously.
NJ Transit spokesman John Durso Jr. said the train was carrying 71 passengers and crew when it hit the back of the trailer shortly before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Durso said the seriously injured include an NJ Transit employee who had been aboard the train and a school crossing guard who authorities say was struck by debris.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, which had been carrying paint, was not seriously injured, authorities said. Dozens of yellow buckets were seen strewn around the tracks and road near the crumpled truck.
NBC 4 New York
The driver of the truck involved in the accident was not believed to have been seriously injured.
Durso said a preliminary investigation reveals the tractor-trailer was backing up after failing to make a tight turn when the crossing gates came down. The train didn't have time to stop, he said.
The diesel-engine train was running on New Jersey's Montclair-Boonton line.
NJ Transit said the 8:11 a.m. train and 9:13 a.m. train on that line were canceled because of the crash, and passengers are advised to use bus service. Later train service experienced some delays.
Durso couldn't say whether the accident would affect service during the evening commute. Main Street remained blocked off for several blocks around the accident site throughout the morning.
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I hate when that happens...
By the looks of the truck, it doesn't seem that anyone on the truck were injured.
Yellow paint all over Hmmmmmmmm. Too bad it wasn't red. Then any other A-hole that doesn't pay attention the the red flashing lights (especially a tractor trailer) might be lucky enough to see the red paint splattered all over the place.......
I just love the law of physics. A big thing being hit by a bigger moving thing the first big thing gets the most damage.
We need to ban mass transit! It is evil! Look at how many people it has killed/injured in the past few months...people falling/getting pushed onto the tracks and now this?! If it weren't for mass transit these poeple would still be alive today.
Sound familiar liberals? It should! #GabbyGiffords
Ebeneser...this article is about a truck driver backing into a train track. Using it for your gun platform is pretty sick. You need therapy. Mental illness is the root of the gun issue, not too many guns, and you seem to be a candidate for a therapist.
Ebeneser - don't listen to JB from NY - just by his name you know where he stands. We need to say it over and over and over! If you ban guns you must also ban - cars/trucks/planes/boats/knives/rope/saws/poison/hammers/tire irons/hatchets/razors/acid and the list of how people kill people goes on and on and on.
DON'T LET LIBS SILENCE YOU!!!
It also seems pretty interesting that the government started buying up ammo at an alarming rate LAST FALL BEFORE THE SANDY HOOK HAPPENED. They were starting this well in advance of this tragedy...and what do liberals say about a good tragedy? Don't let it go to waste. It sickens me that liberals would use the deaths of little children to push their agenda. Sickening.
Hey Ebeneser:
Take a moment to check the facts. For every one person that is hurt or killed by a CRIMINAL with a gun, there are eleven people hurt or killed by non-criminals, either by accident or domestic violence, BECAUSE there was a gun in the house.
That essentially means that, yes, if guns are banned, then only criminals will have them. But, and this is huge, the criminals will still cause the same amount of carnage, BUT, 1100 per cent of the domestic shootings not related to criminal activity, will disappear.
I've lived in NJ all my life. Since the mid 1990's, the NJ Motor Vehicle Commision has wrongfully allowed these oversized tractor trailers to drive on local roads. Here are some facts that get totally ignored by the NJMVC...a tractor trailer as shown above is larger than a railroad freight car. The truckingc companies list the sizes as 73 ft. long. A standard railroad freight car is 33 feet long. This is also the size of the passenger cars you see above.
NJ is one of the most dangerous states for traffic because many of these tractor trailer drivers, though licensed, barely speak English. So they blast through RR signs as if they don't exist. Ever seen one of these behemoths try to beat NJ's new faster than lightening traffic light cameras at intersections? It's almost laughable if not horribly dangerous. If you own a small vehicle in NJ, you know not to pull within 15 feet of an intersection unless you want one of these tractor trailers to slice off your front end. Then, they try to turn a local corner and if they aren't tearing down the traffic lights at intersections, they are tearing up the curbing.
If NJ insists upon allowing trucks larger than the size of railroad cards on local roads, there will be more and more of these accidents. But, let's face it. NJMVC is up the butt of auto insurers who profit most from auto accidents.
Ewent:
Each town is allowed to implement their own "local" roadway ordinances, precluding NJMVD guidelines.
2nd, auto insurers do not profit from auto accidents, on the contrary, they profit by the least amount of plaintiff litigated auto accident cases. The fewer the number of accidents, the less paid out to plaintiffs lawsuits. They make their money from the monthly insurance premiums charged to their insureds.
Brad, I've checked the facts...what the @#$% are you talking about? Where did YOUR
facts come from? JBfromthemetro...using this tragedy for my gun platform is
sick? How about when your president used the memories of those 20 dead children
and 6 dead adults for HIS gun platform you hypocrite. My goodness you liberals
are so dumb, ignorant, and naive that it blinds you from what's going on around
you. Did any of you liberals happen to read the article about how Hitler took control
of Germany 80 years ago that was on msn today? I bet not...because you want to
remain blind to the truth and stay stuck in your blissful little world of candy
canes and gum-drops. I was actually surprised that msn actually posted it. The
similarities are astounding between what happened then and what is happening
now in America...SICKENING!!!
Spoken like a true d*uchebag. Well, trains, cars, buses weren't created by man to kill...guns were/are. Wait 'til one of you gun-toting nutters has to identify one of your kids killed by a shooting.
Dear ebebeser;
Go to NUMEROUS websites that list statistics, as I did. There are approx. 30,000 plus, give or take, gun related deaths each year in America. Approximately 3000, give or take are crime related. The rest are friend to friend, family member to family member, acquaintance to acquaintance, etc. (non-criminal). No matter the actual number, most deaths and injuries are because of guns in a household inhabited by every day people.
How many examples of successfully defended instances of gun owning people are there per year. Minimal! The hundred or two people per year that have defended themselves because they have a weapon in the house is undefendable, compared to the number of deaths and injuries committed by those that "know" each other.
One fact remains. Make gun ownership illegal and the criminals will have the same number of weapons in their possession as they do now. BUT, the number of incidents involving everything from children to friends or family, both accidental and maliciously will tumble overwhelmingly. Open and shut.
Julles50- that’s interesting that you
mention the liberals not letting a good tragedy go to waste...Hitler burned the
German Parliament building and blamed it on "terrorist" organizations
(the Jews) to strike fear into the hearts of Germans, this is how he gained the
country's support for his Nazi regime and mass genocide. For all you who are
claiming that my reasoning and my argument in my original post is defunct and
completely void of reason...YOU ARE CORRECT! That’s why I said...it is the same
"reasoning" you are using to take away the rights and liberties of
Americans. And to whoever said "what will I do when it is my child in a
body bag being identified because a nutty killed him/her with a gun"? I
say to you, I will recognize, just as I do now, that the world is full of evil
people who are capable of carrying out evil acts, and NO law will EVER change
that. It will always be the person, not the object, that is to blame. And don't
think for a second that I haven’t experienced death in my life. My best friend
was shot in the back of the head and killed when I was 13 in a hunting
accident, it was his cousin who killed him. But the thought of blaming the gun
never crossed my mind in the 15 years that have passed since. My girlfriend,
when I was 16, was also killed in an accident when she was t-boned by a semi
going 60mph; did I blame the semi? No! I didn't even blame the driver of the
semi, as much as I wanted to, but it wasn't his fault, it was my girlfriend's
fault. The point is RESPONSIBILITY. People need to take responsibility for
their actions and be held accountable to them. How do we learn responsibility?
We grow up. We have parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, who
a part of our lives and teach us right from wrong; teach how to be and how not
to be. We spend time with our families and go to church and learn how to love
rather than hate. We volunteer our time and resources to charity and to our
neighbors to help them learn and grow in a world full of people, even when we
ourselves have nothing. This is how we build community; this is how we solve problems,
not with useless laws that only affect good, decent people. Our government
today is taking away the need for personal responsibility through gun control,
health care, tax policy, welfare, and so on. The government thinks that it
should be responsible for these things and for American citizens and all you
liberals just eat that up. "The government can give me everything I need
and keep me safe from evil" you say; "pass more laws and take away my
liberty for my own good". You are sadly mistaken; YOU are the only one
that can do that. So you go right ahead
and keep living in your fantasy world, and when it comes crashing down on top
of you, I will be there to pick you up and set you on your feet, and I will
still have my gun.
Ebeneser.....I am not taking one side or another in the national gun safety debate. But, your argument is so stupid and juvenile.....or should I say your example is so stupid and juvenile.....that it actually detracts from what you are trying to accomplish, which I presume is that the gun laws are AOK just the way they are. Try another approach......this one is tired and too easily rebuffed with 3rd grade logic. One step down from "guns don't kill people.....people....."
Let the adults sort this out....you sir are not qualified.
Ebeneser is just a moron....but sadly, he is not alone.
Ebeneser - it is not tired and too easily rebuffed with 3rd grade logic. They are just hoping we'll all just sit down and shut up...not gonna happen...ever.
Julles ...gun addicts show their ignorance when they won't admit that 20 dead children is the limit of our tolerance and patience for your childish need to intimidate others because you own a lethal weapon. Your argument is just as hideous. No one product is manufactured with the sole purpose of killing but a gun. Time for you men to grow up and stop acting like simpering, whiny asses who always must have your way no matter how many more kids end up dead and they will. When the number of armed men and women in this country outnumbers the unarmed, stand by for another Gunfight at OK Corral at every shopping mall, theater, school or public place. Who really has lost their freedom? Those who don't want to see guns plastered everywhere in sight? Or those who demand their big baby way to own a gun? Stay on topic...It's not about your gun addiction.
Ewent, this isn't the 1940s anymore. In this day and time, a standard box car is 85 feet long. The standard 5 well articulated intermodal container cars, are over 265 feet long. Most freight cars in service are usually over 40 feet long as the shorter cars were phased out due to operating expenses as well as government mandates to remove roof top running boards, brake wheels, and the banning of certain styles of truck ( friction bearing etc ) from interchange service.
The same thing goes for passenger cars, with the exception of cars that operate in subways, the average length is over 50 feet long and most of the commuter cars currently in operating are 85 feet long. It is cost prohibitive to operate shorter cars in interchange service as it would require more cars to seat the same amount of people.
Julles, yes, please STFU. You'll change your tune when one of your's gets shot.
Mr. Shin, you'll change your tune when you have a gun to your head and nothing to defend yourself with.
Honestly, a story about a bad decision made by a truck driver and it turns into a misplaced political rant about gun control. These sites should be monitored and any post not on topic should be denied access. As my mother used to stay, there is a time and a place for everything and, Ebeneser, this is not either. So, on topic, I hope that those injured in this accident will recover quickly and well. I'm sure appropriate action will be taken against the truck driver by the appropriate authorities. Enough said.
Heed your own advice liberal.
hahaha! SLAM~O i seen a container truck get slammed not too far from there years ago ,,tossed it like a rag onto its side,this trucker is lucky that the weak trailer got hit and not the actual truck cab !
Guess someone made a critical error concerning the length of the trailer?
it's far past the time when tractor-trailers and the incompetent drivers
be banned forever from our roads. no longer can we stand by and watch
the slaughter and mayhem of innocents. this must come to an end.
America's economy would come to dead halt. That my friend is an absurd idea!
Brad...Not true. There are many countries of the world not glutted with 73 foot long tractor trailors on local town roads. It's an absolute absurdity that any truck so long and so weighty should be allowed to try and maneuver on local roads where they can't turn without driving over sidewalks or curbs.
NJ has many landports where these behemoths are constantly on local roads. The joke is that most of these landports once were served by the railroads. Railroads have dedicated tracks. These tractor trailers do not. They can drive on the NJ Turnpike, Parkway and the smallest town roads if they so choose. That's insanity.
Born and raised in NJ. Those "other countries" are the size of a state in America. The railroads worked prior to the extension of urban areas into rural ones. Today there are simply not enough RR lines to supply America.
Most towns in our country have their own load limits on their local roadways, avoiding the use, for the most part, of huge 18 wheelers.
Data wise, there are many more accidents by passenger vehicles than by trucks. also.
Few of the total number of deaths and injuries by firearms in this country are committed by criminals. The rate of deaths and injuries by non-criminals to criminals in America, is eleven to one.
For every one incident by a criminal, eleven are by law abiding citizens. The argument of the need for a weapon for protection is all mirrors. The number of people that have ACTUALLY used a gun for protection is miniscule, compared to the number of people that accidentally, or, purposely, had a gun cause injury or death.