Fugitive Train Wreck
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, so some of you may have seen the early 90s classic, The Fugitive, it's a movie |
| 0:05.4 | starring Harrison Ford. |
| 0:07.0 | And the fugitive, of course, Harrison Ford's character is chasing the one-art man and |
| 0:13.1 | killed his wife. |
| 0:14.8 | That's Jim Buchanan, a writer for the Silva Herald and Western North Carolina, where a lot |
| 0:19.3 | of the fugitive was filmed. |
| 0:21.3 | Harrison Ford's character, Richard Kimble, was wrongly convicted for the murder, so he's |
| 0:25.2 | on a bus on the way to prison. |
| 0:27.7 | Suddenly, the other prisoners on the bus try to escape, and in all the commotion, the |
| 0:32.0 | bus goes off the road and crashes and slides down a hill until it ends up right on a train |
| 0:37.1 | track. |
| 0:41.5 | While trying to get a hold of himself after the accident, Richard Kimble realizes there's |
| 0:45.0 | a train coming towards the bus, and in a risky move decides to save one of the guards instead |
| 0:49.6 | of just getting out of there as fast as he could. |
| 0:52.7 | It's one of those really tense moments where you're not sure if the main guy is going |
| 0:55.8 | to make it out in time or not, but as you probably have guessed, he does. |
| 1:00.2 | Richard Kimble gets the guard to safety and then jumps off the bus at the last second as |
| 1:04.4 | the train slams into the center of the bus. |
| 1:11.2 | Immediately, fire started along the tracks as the train derails and falls on its side. |
| 1:15.6 | The bus, or at least what's left of it, is also on fire. |
| 1:19.7 | But what a lot of people who have watched that movie probably don't know is that that |
| 1:23.8 | train and bus collision was real. |
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