CSX prepare derails whereas making an attempt to keep away from semi-truck caught on tracks in Kentucky

At least 21 prepare automobiles ran off the tracks in Kentucky Thursday when a conductor was pressured to slam on the brakes to keep away from crashing proper right into a semi-truck caught on the tracks.

The CSX prepare toppled over spherical 3 p.m. throughout the coronary coronary heart of downtown Glendale, a neighborhood roughly 50 miles south of Louisville, an group spokesperson knowledgeable The Post.

The prepare “went into emergency attempting to avoid a collision with a semi-truck and trailer stuck on the crossing,” the spokesperson said.

The sudden stop pressured 21 automobiles to run off the tracks and land inside spitting distance of shut by homes and buildings.

Though the prepare succeeded in avoiding the semi-truck, one in every of many derailed automobiles collided with one different automobile that was shut to the tracks.

One girl contained in the automotive sustained minor, non-life-threatening accidents, a Kentucky state police officer said.

The prepare was not carrying hazardous provides — police said it was hauling completely different autos southbound when it derailed.

Thursday’s derailment is the second for CSX in eight days.

All 4 locomotives and 22 empty automobiles on the company’s 109-car prepare derailed after hitting a big boulder lodged in a West Virginia observe last week.

Several of the automobiles dropped into the riverbed beneath, spilling an unknown amount of oil and diesel fuel into the water.

Washington state and Arizona moreover observed prepare derailments Thursday.

About 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled onto the underside on the Swinomish tribal reservation in Washington after a BNSF prepare ran off a berm.

Eight BNSF automobiles carrying corn syrup derailed in western Arizona, shut to the state’s border with California and Nevada, though no spills had been reported.

No accidents had been reported. It wasn’t clear what prompted each derailment.

With Post wires