The High-Speed Rail Authority paid more than $1 million in unjustified travel expenses for contractors, including for private jets, premium tickets and cigar lounges, according to a report.
A Polish intercity train carrying roughly 300 passengers slammed into a truck stuck on a level crossing near Gdansk after the driver allegedly ignored warning signals, a collision captured on CCTV that railway officials released as a blunt safety warning. The crash unfolded around 12:30 p.m. on September 3 at a crossing near Gdansk Lipce […] The post Passenger train plows into truck at Polish crossing after driver allegedly ignores signals appeared first on American Almanac .
A Polish intercity train carrying roughly 300 passengers slammed into a truck stuck on a level crossing near Gdansk after the driver allegedly ignored warning signals, a collision captured on CCTV that railway officials released as a blunt safety warning. The crash unfolded around 12:30 p.m. on September 3 at a crossing near Gdansk Lipce station, where a PKP Intercity passenger train traveling from Gdynia to Zielona Góra struck an orange heavy-goods vehicle that had become wedged between the crossing barriers. Footage shows the truck driver attempting to move forward and backward to clear the tracks. He failed. The train hit at full approach speed, obliterating the truck's cargo section, scattering debris across the rail line, and…Open
CCTV footage released by Polish Railway Lines shows the terrifying moment a passenger train collided with a truck caught between crossing barriers. The truck driver and all passengers were unharmed, but the train driver had to be taken to the hospital.
Once Phase One of Phase One of Phase One is complete, the state will begin thinking about connecting high-speed rail to Bakersfield, which will constitute Phase Two of Phase One of Phase One.