NTSB: Train Missed Signals Before Oklahoma Crash

One of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last summer, killing three workers and causing an inferno that nearly welded the locomotives together, sped past three signals warning it to slow down or stop, federal investigators said on Feb. 26. The eastbound Union Pacific train passed a siding at 68 mph just prior to the June 24 collision near Goodwell instead of slowing as one of the Omaha, Neb., railroad’s freight trains approached from the other direction, investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board at a hearing in Washington.