MAN CRITICALLY INJURED IN COLLISION WITH TRAIN

  

A man is hospitalized after his pickup struck a train at a crossing in Brenham Monday night.

Brenham police are continuing their investigation into the accident involving a BNSF train and a truck that occurred Monday evening at 6:30 at the crossing at West Bluebell Road and Santa Fe Avenue.train-truck-wreck

According to police, the driver of the truck – whose name has not been released – hit one of the front cars on the train.

The man was taken by EMS Ambulance to Scott and White in Brenham and later transported to Scott and White in College Station where he remains in the Intensive Care Unit.

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  1. they still blow the horns all the time anyway even though they aren’t supposed to. Avoiding hitting a train is not that difficult. I live far from the tracks and still hear the trains in my house without a horn. When you’re driving up to a track just listen. Horns or not you can still hear a train. Distracted drivers not paying attention to driving are more dangerous than a train going through town.

  2. I am not quite sure why the train horn cannot blow a little coming through town instead of the long wailing it did from Lounge/Burleson Street all the way to K& M? Many times I have been sitting on Main street and start to go and lo and behold the arms come down and I am stuck in the intersection because there was no warning. I know the train was nerve racking coming through town, but if there could have been a compromise on the horn blowing instead of cutting it off all together.

  3. He went to a part’s house for a master cylinder and someone sold him a cap for the resivare and all the fluid must have leaked out again causing his breaks to fail!

    1. If you drive by where it happened you can see the skid marks that his vehicle left on the ground. I saw them today when I drove by there. They are pretty apparent. If the brakes did happen to fail then there would not have been any skid marks left from the vehicle, because there would have been no braking.

  4. It would be helpful to the public to know if the crossing arms were down at time of accident. If they were not, then it serves as a reminder to all not to count on them for our safety.

    1. The truck hit the train….after the engines were well past the crossing. Horn, arms, lights, bells, whistles…all irrelevant to this story…the truck ran into a train car … ie it was the truck operators fault, not the trains. unfortunate as it may be that the driver was injured.

  5. Eliminating trains horns in the city was an effort of city government do you think they had public safety in mind? It’s not the railroads fault lucky we have not had more incidents.

  6. This happened right by my house! My daughter and I were on the golf cart watching the train go by,then all of a sudden we heard it squealing and then come to a longgggggg stop. When we turned around to go back home the long way,my husband said “I’m pretty sure it hit a car.” But I didn’t believe him.

  7. I’m still concerned about the fact that there are no train horns allowed in the city. Malfunctions can happen at any time. That horn is a sure fire way to save a life, but I guess those businesses that complained are more important than human life.

    1. I take issue with the above statement, I am not a business, do not own a business, and work and 8-5 job just like most people. However I fully supported making Brenham a quite zone because the trains were so loud and obnoxious in the middle of the night. The post seems to imply that a few influential people caused a wholesale change and I do not believe that to be true. MANY people had their sleep and peaceful use of their home disturbed by the loud horns on the train. In this case, the horn would have made no difference, the driver of the vehicle hit the train that was already going by. I am sorry it happened and feel bad for that driver, however the train horn had no role in this accident.

    2. You can’t blame anyone else but yourself. Stop trying to place blame where it is not due. We, as humans, should KNOW that life IS important, therefore should be more careful and look both ways. He could have stopped, but probably wanted to beat the train. ?

    3. I don’t know about yall, but I still look before I go across the tracks. I don’t just rely on the automated lights. Just like any other intersection or crossing, I look both ways.

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