BNSF Train Derails After Collision with Semi Truck Carrying Live Chickens Injures Trucker

March 19th, 2013 |

NORTH ZULCH, Texas — A BNSF freight train traveling southbound derailed and collided with a Sanderson Farms chicken truck carrying live chickens in Madison County Texas between North Zulch and Normange. The driver of the truck was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan in stable condition.

A trucker was injured and had to be taken to the hospital following a collision with a BNSF train in North Zulch, TX late Monday night on March 18, 2013. The truck was loaded with live chickens.

The accident occurred late Monday night, March 18, at Highway 39 and Old Reservoir Lane in Madison County near the community of North Zulch. The town of North Zulch is abiut 109 miles northwest of Houston.

Map showing location of train derailment after colliding with a truck hauling live chickens at a rail crossing at Highway 39 and Old Reservoir Lane in North Zulch, TX on March 18, 2013.

Approximately seven cars derailed including a couple of tank cars carrying paraffin which is considered a non hazardous substance. Madison County Emergency Management doesn’t believe there is a danger to the public.

A view of the train accident and derailment at dawn on March 19, 2013 in North Zulch, TX following a collision with a chicken truck the night before on March 18, 2013. and Photo credit: KBTX.com

Madison County Sheriff’s investigators, the Normangee Volunteer Fire Department, the North Zulch Volunteer Fire Departments, the Madisonville Fire Department as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety were called to the scene.

The incident remains under investigation at this time..

Blog post by Gordon, Elias & Seely, a FELA lawyer and Houston railroad injury lawyer who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.