{"id":4723,"date":"2012-08-06T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:36","slug":"two-bnsf-trains-collide-in-northwest-harris-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/4723\/two-bnsf-trains-collide-in-northwest-harris-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Two BNSF Trains Collide Near Houston in Northwest Harris County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BNSF train derailment was reported in northwest Harris County on Thursday, August 2 near Houston when 2 trains derailed, after trying to merge onto the same track.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4725\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4725\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4725\" title=\"houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanker cars lay derailed and tipped over on their sides next to a locomotive after a BNSF train collision in northwest Houston, TX on July 26, 2012. Photo credit: KHOU<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The train accident occurred at about 10:30 a.m Thursday morning when BNSF Railway Co., called in to report the derailment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4726\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4726\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4726\" title=\"houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/houston-tx-bnsf-train-collision-and-derailment-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of BNSF train collision in northwest Houston, TX just south of Fallbrook Rd and Miller Street on July 26, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The incident happened at Miller Road and Fallbrook Drive. No injuries were reported at the time of the accident. The sheriff&#8217;s office said that the three cars that derailed were empty. Steve Forsberg, a BNSF spokesman, said another car loaded with flour was also affected by the collision and fell partially off the track.<\/p>\n<p>Forsberg said one moving train sideswiped the other, knocking the three empty cars off the track.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by <a title=\"Houston railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Texas-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Houston railroad injury lawyer<\/a>, Gordon &#038;amp Elias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BNSF train derailment was reported in northwest Harris County on Thursday, August 2 near Houston when 2 trains derailed, after trying to merge onto the same track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,257],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","tag-houston-fela-lawyer","tag-houston-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","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=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}