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No injuries, bad damage in train crash
Morganton News Herald
A CRST tractor-trailer carrying chemicals was split in two after getting stuck on the train tracks in Long View on Monday morning. No one was injured in the collision. Credit: Jeremy Detter/RECORD PHOTO Crews work to clean up an accident scene in Long ...

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Cleveland News - Fox 8
Freight Train Crashes Into Tractor Trailer
Cleveland News - Fox 8
A Norfolk Southern freight train crashed into a tractor trailer that was stuck at a crossing this morning in Long View, North Carolina. A Hazmat team was dispatched to the scene because the truck was carrying a corrosive powder.

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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Watch train blow tractor-trailer in half
Houston Chronicle (blog)
(Beware of loud screaming on the video) Kevin Harlow and his wife Kassie witnessed the train crash. … Harlow described how he saw the tractor-trailer stop along the railroad crossing. He said the driver got out and unsuccessfully attempted to free his ...

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Annapolis County Spectator
Driver on Highway 101 dies at crash scene
Annapolis County Spectator
Among them was a call to an accident on Highway 101 west of Bridgetown in which a tractor-trailer driver suffered a medical incident and drove the 18-wheeler off the road. Paramedics on were unable to revive the driver who died at the scene.

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Train hits tractor trailer in Kings Mountain
WBTV
Video from the scene shows the train is a Norfolk Southern freight train hauling double-stacked containers. The tractor trailer was carrying cotton bales, which were scattered across the scene during the collision. Cell phone video provided to WBTV ...

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Train-sparked brush fire linked to fatal US 231 crash
Journal and Courier
Two separate fires contributed to the accident, with smoke blocking the road. Several vehicles stopped because of the smoke — and a semi-tractor trailer plowed into them. “The initial indication, what we believe, is a train might have went through and ...

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Not again!
Gaston Gazette
The truck driver escaped the collision unhurt. A Norfolk Southern freight train was traveling through downtown Kings Mountain about 7:30 am Friday when it barreled into a tractor-trailer stuck on the railroad crossing. The vehicle was turning onto ...

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WTVR
Amtrak train strikes tractor trailer, no injuries reported
WTVR
CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) - An Amtrak train struck a tractor trailer at a crossing in Caroline County Tuesday morning, according to Caroline County Fire and EMS Chief Jason Loftus . No injuries were reported in the morning accident, Loftus said.
Amtrak train bound for Newport News hits truck, no one injuredWVEC.com (subscription)

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Fredericksburg.com (blog)
Truck driver charged after train accident
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
BY PORTSIA SMITH The driver of a tractor–trailer that was struck by an Amtrak train Tuesday has been charged with reckless driving. Police said Michael A. Douberly, 21, of Moseley, failed to get across the crossing before his vehicle was hit by the ...

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Police: Trucker outside cab when he died in I-70 crash
Aspen Times
A crew with the Colorado Department of Transportation drills out a plug from the Interstate 70 bridge in Avon where a tractor-trailer crashed Sunday morning, sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the sky. Local engineers determined Sunday afternoon ...

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