Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Freight Train with BNSF Railway Freight Train Near Chaffee, Missouri, May 25, 2013.

摘要

On May 25, 2013, at 2:30 a.m. central daylight time, near Chaffee, Missouri, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train collided with a BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train at Rockview Interlocking, where tracks of the two railroads cross. The BNSF train was moving through the interlocking when the UP train struck the 12th car behind the locomotives of the BNSF train. As a result of the collision, 13 cars of the BNSF train derailed and two locomotives and 11 cars on the UP train also derailed. Diesel fuel spilled from the derailed locomotives and caught fire. The engineer and the conductor on the UP train were injured and transported to a local hospital. The Missouri State Highway M bridge crossed over the Rockview Interlocking, and derailed train cars struck bridge supports and collapsed portions of the bridge. After the bridge collapsed, two motor vehicles struck damaged highway elements. Five occupants of the motor vehicles were transported to a local hospital. Damage was estimated to be more than $11 million.