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Webcast: Preliminary Report Released on Veteran's Parade Train Accident

By: Ron Rosseau
Updated: December 6, 2012
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on that accident in Midland that killed four people during a parade.

The Union Pacific freight train was traveling at 62 miles-per-hour when it slammed into a flat-bed trailer being used in the parade to honor military service veterans in the Permian Basin.

It took the train about three-quarters of a mile to stop after the crash.

Four people were killed and eight others on the float and a Midland sheriff's officer were hurt.

It could take more than a year to issue a final report and national transportation safety board administrators say that report could bring new regulations for railroad crossings.


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