Saw a report but lost the site of a tractor trailer trucker hit and killed by a UP freight at an unsignaled crossing. Any one have details? maybe monday or tuesday think it was in Oklahoma?
Maybe this is what you are referring to?
From TRAINS Newswire of July 19,2011
"Another truck driver dies in front of train"Published: July 19, 2011
FTA:"…UNION CITY, Okla. — For the third time in a month, a licensed commercial tractor-trailer driver has died after apparently failing to yield to a train at a grade crossing, the Oklahoman newspaper has reported. Jimmie Daniels, 61, of Cookeville, Tenn., died when a Union Pacific train struck his truck at a crossing in Union City yesterday, sparking a fire; the train crew wasn’t injured.
The train that struck Daniels’ rig included four locomotives and 114 cars. It was northbound on UP’s Fort Worth, Texas, to Wichita, Kan., main line. Stop signs direct motorists to stop and yield right-of-way to trains at the crossing, and Union City Chief of Police Eddie Dickerson said Daniels failed to stop…"
FYI: Union City is about 11 miles south of El Reno, Ok. and El Reno Ok, is aprox 189 miles south of Wichita, Ks. This line is now the Union Pacific RR OKT sub.
Between Wichita,Ks and Ft. Worth,Tx. was the railroad of the Oklahoma,Kansas&Texas RR ( a subsidiary line of the MKTRR (nee CRI&PRR from Harrington,Ks to Ft Worth,Tx.
If interested here is a link to a History of the line;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma,_Kansas_and_Texas_Railroad