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| Tankers Carrying Oil Derail, |
| Tankers Carrying Oil Derail, Catch Fire in US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 1-May-2014
2:57:29 AM |
| Several train cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire on Wednesday along the James River in Virginia, with three black tankers ending up in the water and leaking some oil.
It is the most recent crash involving oil trains that has safety efforts pushing for better oversight.
Nearby buildings were evacuated for a time, but officials said there were no injuries and the city on its website and Twitter said firefighters on the scene made the decision to let the fire burn out. Three or four of the tankers were breached on the train that train company CSX said was on its way from Chicago to unspecified destination. Most of the cars were knocked off the tracks.
Photos and videos posted online showed large flames and thick, black smoke right after the crash. But in later photos it seemed the fire was mostly out.
Concern about the safety of oil trains was heightened last July when runaway oil train derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, near the Maine border. Forty-seven people died and 30 buildings were incinerated. Canadian investigators said the combustibility of the 1.3 million gallons of light, sweet Bakken crude released in Lac-Megantic was comparable to gasoline.
"This is another national wake-up call," said Jim Hall, a former NTSB chairman said of the Lynchburg crash. "We have these oil trains moving all across the United States through communities and the growth and distribution of this has all occurred, unfortunately, while the federal regulators have been asleep."
"This is just an area in which the federal rulemaking process is too slow to protect the American people," he said.
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