FOUR CREW DEAD IN HEAD-ON COLLISION ON IC

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FOUR CREW DEAD IN HEAD-ON COLLISION ON IC

BENTONIA, Miss. – Four crew members of two Illinois Central Railroad

freight trains are reported dead following a head-on collision

northeast of here around 4:15 a.m. July 10 near Anding in Yazoo

County, northeast of Bentonia.

The National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching an

investigator and the UTU Transportation Safety Team will provide the

NTSB with assistance. The investigation likely will be hampered by

heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Dennis.

An unknown number of railcars derailed and at least one railcar

caught fire due to leaking vegetable oil and the fire has been

extinguished.

One train had 117 cars and three locomotives; a second train had 137

cars and four locomotives.

Identification of the dead crew members is being withheld pending

notification of their families.

IC is part of CN North America.

 

[capltd29]

How might this have happened?

Jon

 

[battalion51]

Depends on whether it was in Dark Territory. If it is chances are someone misunderstood a Track Warrant, or someone didn't leave switches on the green. CTC territory, it's anyone's guess. But it's not a good situation, four brothers are dead.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

Depends on whether it was in Dark Territory. If it is chances are someone misunderstood a Track Warrant, or someone didn't leave switches on the green. CTC territory, it's anyone's guess. But it's not a good situation, four brothers are dead.

i just looked this up in my CNIC rule book and this is CTC it is between Anding and Ragin Bentonia is at MP 193.0 on the Yazoo Sub.