{"id":5282,"date":"2013-01-22T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:34","slug":"kansas-city-southern-train-hits-semi-truck-stuck-on-railroad-tracks-in-sugar-land-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/5282\/kansas-city-southern-train-hits-semi-truck-stuck-on-railroad-tracks-in-sugar-land-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Southern Train Hits Semi Truck Stuck on Railroad Tracks in Sugar Land Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUGAR LAND, Texas \u2013 A Kansas City Southern train struck an 18-wheeler carrying an antique Rolls Royce and a Nissan 300ZX sports car on Monday, Jan. 7, after the big rig became stuck on the railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5292\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5292\" alt=\"sugar-land-kcs-train-crash-with-semi-truck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sugar-land-kcs-train-crash-with-semi-truck.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sugar-land-kcs-train-crash-with-semi-truck.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sugar-land-kcs-train-crash-with-semi-truck-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo shows Kansas City Southern Railroad collision with semi truck that became stuck on the train tracks in Sugar Land, Texas on January 7, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sugar Land police said that the accident occurred at the intersection of State Highway 90 and Brooks Street when the 18-wheeler, stuck on the train tracks, was hit. No injuries were reported at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"_fp_0.2740028318949044\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" name=\"player\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.khou.com\/?j=embed_185905431&amp;ref=http:\/\/www.khou.com\/home\/Raw-Train-hits-truck-carrying-Rolls-Royce--185905431.html\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/player-3.2.15.swf\" \/><embed id=\"_fp_0.2740028318949044\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/player-3.2.15.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.khou.com\/?j=embed_185905431&amp;ref=http:\/\/www.khou.com\/home\/Raw-Train-hits-truck-carrying-Rolls-Royce--185905431.html\" name=\"player\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness Bill Benoit described what he saw to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came from Stafford and when I come across the track, (I thought) what the heck is going on. There wasn\u2019t any cops. Nothing here then,\u201d Benoit, a former truck driver, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t have much clearance like a regular truck. They\u2019re real low the bottom frame, and when they go over that hump, they\u2019re stuck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the 18-wheeler was not at fault.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <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> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUGAR LAND, Texas \u2013 A Kansas City Southern train struck an 18-wheeler carrying an antique Rolls Royce and a Nissan 300ZX sports car on Monday, Jan. 7, after the big rig became stuck on the railroad tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,74,36],"tags":[60,257],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas-city-southern-railway","category-texas-railroad-news","category-train-accidents","tag-houston-fela-lawyer","tag-houston-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","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=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}