Dozens of people were injured in the collision of a train and a bus in the US
In the US, a freight train collided with a bus. On Tuesday, March 7, WLOX reports, citing the head of the local police, John Miller.
According to him, the incident occurred at a railway crossing in Biloxi, Mississippi, around 14:15 (23:15 GMT). Killing at least four people, the account of victims goes on tens.
Miller said that the bus was traveling from Austin, Texas, there were about 50 passengers, most elderly people. The fire, which in the United States also perform rescue functions had to dig the injured from the damaged vehicle through the Windows. Hospitalized 35 people, some of them were taken to medical facilities by air.
It is composed of 52 of the carriage 27 with a load and empty of 25, he was flying from New Orleans to Alabama.
#BREAKING: a Freight train hits a deadly charter bus crash in Mississippi https://t.co/WYp4TOJWMw pic.twitter.com/l0wF3W88UA
— The Hill (@thehill) on 7 March 2017.
According to witnesses, crossing the rails, the bus is stuck and stopped. However, Miller has not confirmed this assumption. It is also known that after the collision the train dragged the bus for some distance. The cause of the accident is not yet known.
At the end of January in Utah a passenger train rammed two trucks. The collision occurred because of the failure of automation on the move. As a result of collision passengers nor the composition nor the drivers of heavy vehicles, was not injured.