{"id":3093,"date":"2011-06-21T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:40","slug":"union-pacific-train-collides-with-18-wheeler-truck-at-railroad-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/3093\/union-pacific-train-collides-with-18-wheeler-truck-at-railroad-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Train Collides with 18-Wheeler Truck At Railroad Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TX &#8211; An accident involving a Union Pacific train and 18 wheeler truck occurred on Monday morning on June 20, at about 8:30 a.m. in El Paso&#8217;s Lower Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3099 aligncenter\" title=\"el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-crossing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-crossing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-crossing.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-crossing-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>El Paso police told KFOX14 they believe the driver of the semi-truck tried to beat an oncoming train at the Alameda and Inglewood railroad crossing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3138\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3138\" title=\"el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-map1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/el-paso-train-and-truck-accident-map1-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of Union Pacific train collision with truck in El Paso&#39;s lower valley.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/news\/28295458\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">KFOX14<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cloth rags were found inside the trailer, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of the accident show the front of the train smashed into the semi&#8217;s trailer. El Paso police said the train pushed the semi-truck 20 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the semi-truck is facing citations, said police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Published by <a title=\"fela lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">FELA lawyer<\/a> news blog at Gordon &#038;amp Elias, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TX &#8211; An accident involving a Union Pacific train and 18 wheeler truck occurred on Monday morning on June 20, at about 8:30 a.m. in El Paso&#8217;s Lower Valley. El Paso police told KFOX14 they believe the driver of the semi-truck tried to beat an oncoming train at the Alameda and Inglewood railroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,36,9],"tags":[207,4,59],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-railroad-news","category-train-accidents","category-union-pacific","tag-el-paso-fela-lawyer","tag-fela-lawyer","tag-texas-fela-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}