Train vs. truck: Trailer peeled back '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
I think just short of an A1-M1, the train is going to win. It's called physics. Mass + inertia.Â
Please tell me the truck was carrying a full load of sardines. Oh, the irony!
Looks simple. The driver lost control, jumped the curb and fell onto the tracks. Not like he was trying to bypass a crossing barrier.
It appears to this stupid White-boy that mass v. weight and the train won in this meeting of both entities...
 @boned Ya might want to go back to your physics text and relearn the difference between mass and weight.
"Can of sardines"? How about a can of anchovies? KATU, try to stay on topic. If there was a crash involving a truck and train, leave the cute responses to us!
Actually, it was WSDOT who made that comment. KATU quoted it.
Itâs not clear exactly how it happened...somehow a truck ended up on the rail tracks.
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KATU: Consider holding a story until you've gathered all of the facts.
 @Mipsfer Now, now - it was fate and nothing else and Einstein's theory held true so says KATU...
I didn't think Forest Gump drove?
 @Oh My Even Forrest Gump can keep a vehicle on the road.
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This looks more like the work of Private Pyle.
You mean trucks and trains can't share the tracks? Glad no one was hurt anyway. LOLÂ
 @jpk  Funny thing, hmm? Trucks are so . . . piggish! <grin>
I want to see train vs cruise liner
the train was removed from the tracks? Â Â You think it may have been the TRUCK that was removed? Â Kinda hard to remove a train from its tracks. Â That aside all in all were lucky. Â Had it been going any faster the train would have been removed from the tracks...right into the river.
 @webfoot Some of the debris from the truck probably was twirled up into the train's chassis, so yes, the train probably was removed from the tracks. Then the truck was removed from the tracks as well.Â
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(Gotta give it to the journalists, now. They don't have forethought into how the articles are read. They skip many important details.)
@washcomom @webfoot Ain't that the truth. Journalism must have new standards!
 @jpk  @washcomom  @webfoot >'Journalism must have new standards!'
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I'm still trying to figure out if online content 'journalism' HAS standards. New, old or otherwise.....
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Well, other than the 'drive the hits with incendiary topics and inflamitory headlines' standard that seems to be the norm here on K2.Â
@I812 Agreed! Whatever is provided as news has to fit several agendas, whether the "reporter's" of the stations! Media rules nowadays. Live with it or dig your bunker; tis a sign of the times, and the future!
@jpk @washcomom We don't have journalists anymore. We don't even have reporters. We now have staff writers. Apparently staff writers do not have to comply with any standards if the stories on this and other similar sites are any indication. Sad.