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Semi-Truck vs. Freight Train on Highway 85 in Platteville: What Happened and Who Bears Responsibility You are sitting somewhere in Weld County right now — maybe in a kitchen in Platteville, maybe at a hospital bedside in Greeley, maybe on the phone with an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not — and you are trying to understand how a morning on Highway 85 turned into 17 derailed rail cars, two crushed locomotives, a diesel spill soaking into the ground, and a police statement that says the truck “possibly attempted to beat the train.” That word — “possibly” — is doing a lot of work in that sentence. It is an early investigative impression from a press briefing, not a final finding, and it is not the end of the question. It is the beginning of one. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial vehicle and railroad crossing cases in Colorado, and we are writing this for the person who was in that 2012 Kenworth on the morning of December 4, 2019, and for their family, and for anyone else who has been through a truck-versus-train collision on a rural grade crossing and does…