![]() I 25 mile post 106 northbound and southbound near PUEBLO is closed due to train derailment. Sunday, the state patrol announced on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. The interstate was officially closed in both directions between exits 104 and 106 around 4:30 p.m. In an emailed statement to The Denver Post on Monday, BNSF Communications Director Kendall Kirkham Sloan said no injuries to the train’s crew have been reported and BNSF personnel are working on site to help clear the incident as safely as possible.Īccording to data from the Federal Railroad Administration, BNSF has had 177 derailments so far in 2023 - the most among railroad companies in the country - and had 282 derailments last year. Preliminary reports from BNSF indicate that 30 coal cars derailed off of the bridge, collapsing the structure, NTSB spokesperson Sarah Sulick said.Īccording to a Monday news release from CDOT, six to seven of those cars and the coal they were carrying scattered across both lanes of I-25. The Pueblo County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified the truck driver as Lafollette Henderson, 60, of Compton, California. The trucker was headed northbound and became trapped when the train cars fell from the bridge on top of his 18-wheeler. In a Sunday evening news conference, Major Brian Lyons with the state patrol said that the driver of a semitrailer that was caught under the bridge when it collapsed was killed. He said he was “saddened that a life was lost in this train derailment and send my condolences to his family and loved ones.” “I am ensuring that we are doing everything we can to complete (debris removal) more quickly, including beginning preparations now so we can begin as soon as we are allowed to and save precious hours,” Polis said. “Just being down here, you see all of the coal from the overturned train cars - it is a significant recovery effort,” said Bhatt, a Biden administration official who served as CDOT’s executive director until 2017. He referenced a Colorado Department of Transportation timeline that the road may not be cleared for “days to weeks.” He said that would take “at least some days” before that happened. Shailen Bhatt, the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, said in an interview that federal investigators needed to complete their on-site inspection before the interstate can be cleared and reopened. There was still no estimate on when I-25 would reopen. Gary Cutler, spokesperson for the Colorado State Patrol, said Sunday that the railroad bridge over the highway collapsed as the train derailed, but officials weren’t sure what caused the derailment yet. ![]() ![]() The incident, which involved a BNSF Railway coal train, forced an extended closure of the major north-south arterial. ![]() at a location four miles north of Pueblo, between mile markers 106 and 107. Interstate 25 likely will be shut down for several days - and potentially much longer - after 30 train cars derailed north of Pueblo, collapsing a rail bridge over the highway, state and federal officials said Monday.Ī truck driver was killed Sunday after 30 train cars derailed and spilled both cars and coal across I-25 just before 3:30 p.m. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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