Railroads
Bad Aibling, GER Collision, February 2016
German dispatcher playing video game resulted in train collision. 12 passengers died. 85 were injured.
On February 9, 2016, two passenger trains collided on a single-track stretch of railway near Bad Aibling in Bavaria, about 60...
Amtrak 188 Derailment May 2015
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...
Santiago de Compostela derailment, July 2013
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...
Port Authority collision, Hoboken NJ, May 2011
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,...
Derailment, Bronx NY Dec 2013
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...
Rear end collision, Westville IN
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...
Pedestrian fatality, West Jordan, UT
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...
Rear end collision, Mineral Springs NC
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...