May 16, 1994, the southbound National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) train 87 collided with an intermodal trailer that had either fallen or was falling from a flat car on the passing northbound CSX Transportation Inc. freight train R176-15 (CSXT 176) near Selma, North Carolina. On Amtrak train 87, the assistant engineer was killed, the engineer sustained serious injuries, and 1 on-board service crewmember and 119 passengers received minor injuries. The operating crew on CSXT 176 sustained no injuries. The major safety issues discussed in the report are the loading, securement, and inspection of intermodal trailers onto railroad flat cars and the crashworthiness of both the locomotive operating compartment and the fuel tank.
National Transportation Safety Board Railroad Accident Report: Amtrak Train 87 Derailment After Colliding with Intermodal Trailer from CSXT Train 176 Selma, North Carolina, May 16, 1994
1995
74 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
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Transportation Safety , Railroad Transportation , Railroad accidents , Accident investigations , Collisions , Derailment , Rail transportation , Accident causes , Human factors , Fuel tank crashworthiness , Inspection , Crashworthiness , North Carolina , Recommendations , Amtrak train 87 , Salem(North Carolina) , CSX Intermodal Corporation