Bystander video captures Norfolk Southern train T-boning septic truck at Virginia railroad crossing

A freight bid collided with a septic motortruck astatine a railroad crossing successful Virginia past week, destroying the conveyance and spilling sewage onto the crushed astatine the scene.

The collision happened astatine astir 4 p.m. connected May 14, according to the Chesapeake Police Department. Video of the clang taken by a bystander shows the septic motortruck crossing the railroad tracks conscionable arsenic the oncoming Norfolk Southern bid T-boned the vehicle.

The interaction sent the motortruck careening onto the ground, wherever it overturned and spilled sewage from its tank.

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A septic motortruck crossing bid tracks successful Virginia was struck by an oncoming train. (Azuriah O’Daniel via Storyful)

"Preliminary findings bespeak that the motortruck failed to halt astatine a posted halt motion anterior to the collision," the constabulary section said successful a Facebook post. "This incidental remains nether progressive investigation."

Azuriah O’Daniel, who filmed the collision, told WAVY-TV that the bid conductor utilized a large horn to pass the motortruck operator of the oncoming locomotive.

"I don't deliberation a batch of radical recognize they're not cars. They don't person rubber tires," O'Daniel said. "It's alloy rails with alloy wheels. When you grind those 2 together, that's instant sparks."

He noted that the crossing is backstage and lacks the emblematic informing devices utilized to alert drivers.

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The vessel of the septic motortruck separated from the main compartment and spewed onto the roadworthy aft it was struck crossing the bid tracks. (Azuriah O’Daniel via Storyful)

When constabulary arrived astatine the scene, they recovered the overturned motortruck and a antheral operator with life-threatening injuries. The operator was listed successful unchangeable information connected Friday, WAVY-TV reported.

Authorities person not yet released his identity. No 1 connected the bid was injured, Norfolk Southern told Fox News Digital.

The bid appeared to smash done the vessel connected the backmost of the septic motortruck arsenic it crossed the tracks. (Azuriah O’Daniel via Storyful)

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The mishap caused a "minor fuel‑related hazmat situation," constabulary said, but determination was "no contiguous information to the public."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Chesapeake Police Department.