National Transportation Safety Board Railroad Accident Report: Collision of211 Northern indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 with a Tractor-211 Trailer, Portage, Indiana, June 18, 1998

摘要

About 4:31 a.m. on June 18, 1998, a westbound Northern Commuter Transportation211u001eDistrict two-car passenger train struck the second semitrailer of a long 211u001ecombination vehicle consisting of a tractor pulling two flatbed semitrailers 211u001eloaded with steel coils at a highway-rail grade crossing near Portage, Indiana. 211u001eWhen the vehicles collided, the second semitrailer broke away and was dragged by 211u001ethe train, while a chain securing a steel coil to the second semitrailer broke. 211u001eThe released coil entered the train's lead car through the front bulkhead and 211u001emoved into the passenger compartment. Three fatalities and five minor injuries 211u001eresulted.