'We're about to crash. Brace yourself' • Eye witnesses tell the NTSB what it was like when a Metra train smashed into a truck
The time that elapsed between a truck freezing on a rail crossing in Clarendon Hills and its collision with a Metra BNSF Line train was under a minute.
On the tracks,"I tried to start it up," Del's Moving Inc. driver Sam Cubic testified."I tried so many times, four, five times. I saw a train coming ... so I have to jump. If I didn't jump, I will be dead." The movers drove through Clarendon Hills and onto the Prospect Avenue crossing where pavement improvements were occurring on either side.As he tried to coax the engine back to life, Cubic saw the train."It was so fast. And I had a choice. I didn't want to leave the truck but it did not run."
"I tried to time it. I didn't want to stay in the cab because I was concerned of debris coming through the windshield. It's a pretty big truck, and so I blew the whistle as long as I felt it was safe to do so." Brakeman Brandy White weathered the crash in a railcar near the rear of the train and immediately began checking on riders."Everyone wanted to exit the train, so I cut the door, each individual door out, and let the passengers off on my way toward the front."
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