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 TECHNICAL REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE

1 Report No. : NTSB-RHR-76-2.

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4. Title and Subtitle. : Railroad/Highway Accident Report — Collision of a Crown-Trygg Construction Company Truck with an Amtrak Passenger Train, Elwood, Illinois,  November 19 1975

5.Report Date: May 12. 1976

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9 Performing Organization Name and Address : National Tran5portation Safety Board

Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety

Washington, D.C. 20594

10 Work Unit No. :1817

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12 Sponsoring Agency Name and Address:

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFTEY BORADWASHINGTON D.C. 20394

13 Type of Report and Period Covered:

Railroad/Highway Accident Report November 19, 1975

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16. Abstract : At 9 10 a m, c.s t , on November 19, 1975, Amtrak turboliner passenger train No. 301 was struck by a loaded dump truck on a grade crossing in Elwood, Illinois. The crossing was unprotected and had limited sight clearance between the road and the track. Four cars of the five—car train were derailed and 41 persons were injured. The train was owned by Amtrak and was operated by an Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (ICG) crew over the ICG track. The road was a county highway maintained by the Will County Highway Department

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the truckdriver to step his vehicle short of the track until it was safe to proceed Contributing to the accident was the inadequate sight clearance between the road and the track on the approach to the unprotected grade crossing.

As a result of its investigation of this accident, the Safety Board made recommendations to the Federal Highway Administration and to the Federal Railroad Administration

17.Key Words : Grade crossing safety, high—speed rail corridors, train couplers; grade crossing management;  turboliners

18.Distribution Statement : This document is available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22151.

19. Security Classification: (of this report) UNCLASSIFIED

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21. No of Pages: 24

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NTSB Form 1765.2 (Rev. 9/74)