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May 2015: Amtrak train 188 derailed in Philadelphia, PA. Eight passengers died. 185 were injured.
About 9:21 p.m. eastern daylight time on May 12, 2015, eastbound Amtrak passenger train 188 derailed at milepost 81.62 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The train had just entered the...
July 2013: Passenger train derails at 111mph in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 79 passengers died, 140 were injured.
On July 24, 2013 a high speed Avila train with 218 passengers and 4 crew aboard derailed, killing 79 passengers and injuring around 140. The accident...
May 2011: Insufficient attention to train speed caused collision.30 people were injured.
On the morning of May 8, 2011 Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corpora tion (PATH) train 820 was heading toward platform track 2 to offload passengers at the Hoboken station in Hoboken, New Jersey,...
December 2013: Lapse of engineer’s attention caused derailment in The Bronx. 4 people were killed.
On the morning of December 1, 2013, passenger train 8808 was traveling from Poughkeepsie, NY Southbound on Metro-North Hudson Line’s main track 1, on its way to New York’s Grand...
January 2012: Freight train strikes rear of another train in Westville, Indiana. Multi-car derailment and fire.
On January 6, 2012, at 1:18 p.m., westbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train Q39506 struck the rear end of standing westbound CSX freight train K68303 on track 2...
June 2011: Light rail train strikes pedestrian on track in West Jordan, UT. A 15-year-old girl died.
At 2:38 PM MDT, June 8, 2011, a westbound light rail train that was being operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), struck and fatally injured a pedestrian at the 3200 West...
May 2011 Freight train collides with rear of another train at Mineral Springs, NC. Two crewmembers died.
On May 24, 2011, about 3:35AM (EDT), a northbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train was traveling at about 48 mph on a single main track when it struck the rear of...
January 2010: Poor Communication Contributed to Fatalities Caused by a Hi-Rail Vehicle 2 Fatalities
On January 26, 2010 at about 1:40 am, while moving in reverse down the track at approximately 13 mph, a hi-rail vehicle struck and fatally injured two train control technicians...
September 2010: Fatigue and Cell Phone Use contributed to a Collision Between Two Freight Trains causing $8.1M Physical Damage
On September 30, 2010, at 4:05 p.m., a southbound Canadian National Railway freight train collided head on with a northbound Canadian National...