Train, meet SUV
A train has collided with a Sports Utility Vehicle in Clark County near Fisher's Landing. The exact location is off Southeast Bella Vista Road, near the Southeast Evergreen Highway - four miles east of Vancouver.
Clark County dispatch confirms that a car stalled on the railroad track, and the driver was able to get out before the train came. No one was injured.
The accident occurred 11:44 a.m. Sunday.
The photo shows the car after being carried by the train for a ways down the track.
All traffic in and out of a nearby "upscale" housing development is reportedly cut off the train where it stopped.
Photos submitted by J K Stein.
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Moron! Put you car in neutral and push it! it isn't that hard.
maybe he couldnt get it in nutral. u dont know what caused the vehcle not to move..... moron dont assume
What does "upscale" have to do with the story?
Looks like they're making new sub-compact SUV's.
Looks like a new sub-compact SUV.
Looks like a new sub-compact SUV.
Looks like a new sub-compact SUV.
Too bad the person didn't keep their vehicle maintained so it wouldn't stall. Or, so it would easily re-start if they killed it with poor use of hte clutch!
Too bad the Cash For Clunkers deal is over.
insurance job
I'm betting the SUV didn't actually "stall." It was probably stupidity on the part of the driver.
looks like the "SUV" got high centered on the rail when the upscale donkey turned his car down the wrong way and onto the tracks. Any vehicle unless its a jacked-up truck will high center on the rail. Fact of life. Deal with it you d*mn liberals!!! You be an idiot and you pay the price!!
How exactly do political leanings come into play here???
I realize that this article is from the Vancouver beat and all, but has anyone else noticed that the article is horribly written and contains multiple misspellings and grammatical errors?
I didn't think so.
Standard KATU reporting as far as I can tell. Spell/grammer checking is really asking a lot of the staff.
Shouldn't be called an accident unless that train left it's tracks & hit the SUV somehow; is more like very bad decision, but not an accident. Glad the operator had the sense to get out of the vehicle, hope they are ticketed for "failure to maintain" as if the shoe fits....
Probably couldn't afford the payments anymore.
The SUV is a late model Lexus. I don't know how a late model lexus could "stall" and why it ended up on the rail road track in the first place?
Has the world really come to a point where people forget about people? With all the comments above, did anyone bother to make a simple comment regarding no one being injured or killed. How cold and callous people have become! My mother once said if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say it! Thankfully no one was injured or killed. My sympathy to the driver of the vehicle and the engineer of the train. What an experience no one would want to endure.
Has the world really come to a point where people forget about people? With all the comments above, did anyone bother to make a simple comment regarding no one being injured. How cold and callous people have become! Thankfully no one was injured or killed. My sympathy to the driver of the vehicle and the engineer of the train. What an experience no one would want to endure.
AMEN! I am glad no one was hurt, and ache for the train's Engineer and the absolute terror he must have been going through.