Description: Full Story: www.eagletribune.com A 41-year-old Derry woman experienced a close call about 9:30 am Tuesday, February 1, 2011 when her car slid off the highway and down a slight embankment. Instead of coming to a stop at the bottom of the 8-foot embankment or overturning, the car rose into the air and its front-end became stuck in 3 feet of snow. See the full story with quotes from emergency workers and additional photos at the link above. Video by Tim Jean photographer for eagletribune.com
Description: BNVN Weather Paparazzi Shannon Lupton was documenting the start of what is being called "Snow-mageddon", also known as the major winter storm setup that is starting to impact a good part of the United States from Maine to New Mexico. Shannon is covering the event at the northern end of the winter storm system in Madison, Wisconsin where several inches of snow had already fallen before midnight. Madision, WI is just on the edge of the current Blizzard Warning and Winter Storm Warnings but it could see near blizzard conditions later today with the winds coming out of the north and blowing around 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. The video opens up with shots of the aftermath of a three car accident and an ambulance responding in downtown Madison, WI. As the heavy snow continues, the video shows various footage of people, traffic and snow plows in the downtown area. The video ends with heavy blowing snow lit up by street lights. To license this footage, contact www.stormchasingvideo.com
Description: Check the video response below to see a car almost getting hit at the same crossing 2 months ago. Amtrak Train Hits Semi Truck at about 8:30 AM on January 12th 2011. Unfortunately the driver of the truck was killed. This happened at my regular spot in Dunkirk NY where I have done 100's of videos over the years. Local reports say many of the passengers took the train to avoid the huge snowstorm on the eastern seaboard, but had a long wait after this accident, about a 5 hour delay before heading to Buffalo. From the local newspaper: A Texas tractor-trailer driver died this morning at 8:30 after the rig he was driving hit a train carrying passengers on Middle Road in the city of Dunkirk. According to WDOE-AM, a 51 man from Shepherd, Texas, was struck by a passenger train. He was on his way to make a delivery to the Nestle Purina plant in the town. Shepherd is located 55 miles from Houston on the eastern side of the state of Texas. Dunkirk Police, Dunkirk Fire, the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department and the New York State Police were all on the scene of the accident this morning. The train, which was part of an Amtrak passenger train, was damaged as well. There was no report of injuries to the passengers, however, the engine of the train was damaged in the accident. The train had 247 passengers.
