(Source: Associated Press, March 10, 2015)
HALIFAX, N.C. — There was time enough to warn train dispatchers as a 127-ton tractor-trailer, so big and heavy that it required a special permit and a state trooper escort, tried to negotiate a difficult turn across the tracks. But there’s no indication anyone alerted Amtrak before a passenger train slammed into the truck Monday in North Carolina, injuring 55 people.
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