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No Serious Injuries When Train Strikes Pickup At East Kingsfield Crossing
November 2, 2023
There were only minor injuries reported Thursday when a train collided with a pickup truck on East Kingsfield Road.
Just before noon, a white Nissan pickup was stopped in traffic facing west on East Kingsfield Road approaching Highway 95A. A CSX train was traveling south on the railroad approaching the crossing.The train engine collided with the rear of the Nissan pickup. The 66-year old driver of the pickup sustained only minor injuries, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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15 Responses to “No Serious Injuries When Train Strikes Pickup At East Kingsfield Crossing”
@ Anne I agree with your statement. It also says slower traffic keep right. People just don’t pay any attention to that publication.
People stop on those tracks for the red light all the time.
Well let’s see we could blame it on the train the road the weather the other drivers on the road the place where the train passes the county and everything else !!! Bottom line is the driver was totally at fault because he didn’t pay attention to what he was doing or in to big a hurry!!! Next time if there’s a next time watch what you are doing!!!!
Gross weight wins everytime
Do not stop within 15 feet of the crossing on either side if the track, in the Florida Drivers manual..
Trains cannot stop for traffic. What is more important than saving your life?
And, this evening, we pulled up to the RXR crossing to find the driver ahead of us sitting on the tracks.
My father worked for the railroad, when he was teaching me to drive back in the late 60’s when we came to a railroad track, he always told me to stop well back from the track. You don’t know what that train is hauling, and a piece of junk could fall off of it and hit the car or worst come through the windshield. To this day when I come to a track and a train is coming, I stop 20 to 25 feet from the track.
“Me” you nailed it…
So driver got his butt kicked for sitting on the tracks
Not the trains’ fault, not the unpainted lines’ fault and, certainly not the tracks’ fault! It’s clear, the driver was not paying attention!
When I lived in Northern Idaho, I was behind some teenagers at a R&R crossing. The arms was down and I was behind them. They were not on the tracks. Suddenly, for some unknown reason, they thought it would be funny, I guess, to try and cross over the tracks to beat the train. It didn’t go well. They didn’t make it. They all four died, and I will never forget it. That is why I do not stop on R&R tracks. Trains cannot stop on a dime, and believe me, you will not win. Just glad to know this man wasn’t hurt.
Unbelievable!!
You NEVER pull forward until you are able to clear those tracks. I can’t tell you the amount of people that pull up on the tracks or sit right up to the track under the crossing arms especially on 29 at the mill. Trains ain’t stopping for you. Glad no one was injured.
Just don’t stop on the tracks? I assure you 9/10 times the train won’t leave the tracks to hit you.
When they re-did that intersection a couple of years ago, they failed to repaint the stop line on the west side of those tracks at that intersection. There’s room for two cars to stop on the red light, and not be on the track. Unfortunately, people don’t always pull far enough forward, or a third car pulls up behind two that might be stopped there already, and end up sitting part way on the track. They really need to repaint that stop line so people know to pull forward.