Train derailment causes other crashes

On Sunday in Missouri, a cargo train crash led to a chain reaction of unfortunate events. The crash happened near Chaffee, MO, around 2:30a.m. Saturday, the crash lead to the derailment of about two dozen rail cars....
By: Accident Attorney's Group
 
LOS ANGELES - May 28, 2013 - PRLog -- On Sunday in Missouri, a cargo train crash led to a chain reaction of unfortunate events. The crash happened near Chaffee, MO, around 2:30a.m. Saturday, the crash lead to the derailment of about two dozen rail cars which collided into the supporting pillars of a highway bridge. Two cars on the highway overpass consisted of seven people who were reportedly injured, when the 40-foot section of the overpass crumpled.
“The damage is very extensive,” Mark Shelton, engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation’s southeast region, said Sunday. “We’re going to end up removing the entire bridge and completely replacing it.”
The overpass was built about 15 years ago, Shelton said that the replacement would approximately cost about $3 million, and the bridge is expected to reopen early September. The bridge carries about 400 to 500 cars a day, mostly between Chaffee, Scott City and Cape Girardeau. The National Transportation Safety Board said the bridge was given rated “good” after its last inspection in February.
The payment of replacing the railroads will likely come from the railroads themselves, but the investigation as to what caused to accident to begin with is still early.
“We’ll have to go through the investigation and all that stuff and figure out liability. But our bridge was just standing that. … So certainly we’ll be looking to the railroad for recovery,” he said.
After a Union Pacific train hit the side of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection is when the collapse occurred. Crews were at the scene on Sunday, cleaning up after the debris and removing sections of the bridge. The derailed rail cars were loaded primarily with scrap metal, automobiles and auto parts.
According to The National Transportation Safety Board, the investigation has begun and can take as long as a year until it is finished. The accident occurred more than a week after a commuter train derailment in Connecticut that injured 70 people and disrupted service for days.
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