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Show Vain demolishes truck, Iriver seriously injured he thought the windshield of the train engine would collapse on him. Neither the engineer, brakeman or conductor were injured. Det. Bean sf id that the train was traveling trav-eling about 20 to 30 mph at the time of the ac:ident. Debris from the truck was scattered scat-tered about 50 to 75 feet down the track. The train was stopped in about 140 feet. The engineer told Bean that he had set the brake before the train hit the truck. The 57-year-old truck driverhas been drivingfor 40 years and never has had a bad accident before, the officer noted. Damage to the semi was listed at $60,000. Det. Bean said that he didn't believe he had ever seen as badly damaged vehicle before in all of his years as a police officer. There was $10,000 damage to the semaphore structure and about $500 damage to the rotating light on the front of the train engine. A crane from Steve Strate Construction Con-struction was called in to remove the semaphore unit and the crane also lifted the remains of the truck cab onto the flat bed of the trailer. were ripped open in the accident and diesel fuel was on the tracks, the truck, and the ground. Det. Bean said it was a wonder it had not burned. Fire crews from Pleasant Grove hosed down the fuel and stoodby while ambulance crews worked to free the victim from the truck. Det. Bean said that Jackson was pinned inside the vehicle for at least 20 minutes before he could be extricated. Jackson was taken to American Fork Hospital where he was listed in stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit on Monday. Witnesses told Det. Bean that they saw the train and heard the horn blowing and the horn continued contin-ued to blow until impact. The engineer told Det. Bean that he thought the truck was going to stop as it appeared to only be traveling about three or four miles per hour. The engineer said that Jackson looked over at him, they were about on the same level, just before the train hit the cab. The engineer said he fell to the floor then because Louisiana man was seriously d Wednesday when his semi- was struck by a Union Pacific engine at Gate one of Ge- 1 1 Steel. kasant Grove Police Detective an said that Charles Benny tf Pineville, La., received shoulder and chest injuries train struck the cab of his fofdingtotheofficer, Jackson W exited the parking lot at LTUj and Travel and was "found on Geneva Road when Pted aright turn into Gate ' ne officer said that Jackson just crossed the first set of hVl n,the cabfhis truck "" by the northbound switch "engncars- SLjwm Pushed into the "ead Ight support and the erbel ' Str'king the empty Jempactpushedthecabofthe ita'0U"d light support l as facing east. The trailer me unhooked from the 0th diesel tanks on the truck |
