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9/14/2023
The National Transportation Safety Board last week updated and released the public docket for its ongoing investigation into the Sept. 8, 2022, fatal accident involving a Union Pacific Railroad train that collided with stored rail cars in California.
The accident resulted in the deaths of the train’s conductor and engineer, according to the NTSB docket summary.
The NTSB reported the train was traveling about 28 mph on mainline No. 2 in Imperial County when a UP dispatcher routed it into the west end of a signal-controlled siding on the Yuma subdivision. The train then collided with 74 standing sets of empty intermodal cars that had been stored since December 2021.
The collision resulted in the derailment of the two lead locomotives, one intermodal rail car of the striking train, and six of the stored intermodal cars in the siding. The train consisted of two lead locomotives, 122 loaded intermodal rail cars and two locomotives on the rear end.
The updated docket can be downloaded here.