Around 9:00 this morning, June 28, 2008, an eastbound CSX coal train collided with a tractor-trailer that was pulling out of Georgia Pacific Paper mill in Big Island; Amherst County, Virginia…U.S. rout 501. The truck, with its lone occupant was pushed proximally two hundred yards on the tracks before the train came to a complete stop.
No one on the train was injured and the driver of the truck sustained, what appeared to be, minor head injuries. Members of the Big Island rescue squad who happened by near the time of the accident immediately saw to the truck drivers needs until the ambulance arrived shortly after.
© 2008 D L Ennis, All rights reserved.
NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given to me, D L Ennis. Link to be used…(Visual Thoughts http://dlennis.wordpress.com/)
NOTE: Commercial use, and the creation of prints, must be purchased! For more information you can contact me here.
1 response so far ↓
Amy // June 28, 2008 at 3:55 pm |
Please call me at 846-5010. I work with channel 13 news, WSET and wanted to put your photo of the train hitting the truck on the air tonight at 6. Please let me know if that’s okay. ASAP.