Amtrak Didn't Wait For System That Could've Prevented Wreck
The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost — critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active.
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The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost — critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active.
He says investigators will start their probe in Washington State by reviewing the train's black boxes to see what was happening moments before the crash, testing the engineer to see if drugs or alcohol played a role, and by focusing on the cause of most train derailment.
An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least three people, authorities said.
More than 40 people were injured when a commuter train crashed into another one that was parked at a station in suburban Philadelphia.
The mayor of the Mississippi city where a train slammed into a bus, killing four Texas tourists, says he will keep working with the railroad to close some crossings and make others safer.
Rail service resumed Monday at a New Jersey transit station damaged less than two weeks ago after a train crash that killed a woman on the platform and injured more than 100.
Investigators are trying to determine what happened before a New Jersey commuter train barreled through a station and crashed into a barrier, killing a young mother and injuring more than 100 others.
A commuter train plowed into the bustling Hoboken rail station during the morning rush hour Thursday, reportedly killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others, some critically.
Due to high traffic use, officials have decided that the stretch of road from Cross Timbers to Bobcat Boulevard will be open to traffic from 6:00am to 9:00am each morning, and from 3:00pm to 6:00pm each afternoon.
Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff said Monday evening that all 26 of the derailed cars were cleared.
The road is scheduled to open Tuesday from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. for the morning commute and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
Officials say that after a train hauling coal derailed in rural North Texas, work continues to clear cars.
A train failed to heed a stop signal before it barreled head-on into another freight train last month in the Texas Panhandle, killing three people.
Crews continued to work trying to smolder a fire at the scene of a train crash that happened Tuesday morning in the Texas panhandle.
Several box cars have derailed and are engulfed in flames after two freight trains collided in the Texas Panhandle.
Using a set of North Texas train tracks as a thoroughfare proved disastrous for two people in Fort Worth. A Trinity Railway Express (TRE) train crashed into their vehicle and injured both people inside, one of them critically.
Three of the biggest freight railroads operating in the U.S., including one in North Texas, have told the government they won't meet a 2018 deadline to start using safety technology intended to prevent accidents.
Cleanup crews are dumping gravel to firm up an area near two overturned locomotives that derailed during North Texas flooding.
Injuries were reported after a a train crashed into an 18-wheeler in Fort Worth. The accident happened just after 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of West Jessamine and Main Street.
A train with the DCTA struck a pickup truck on Thursday morning in Lake Dallas. The train was heading from Highland Village to the Medical Center station in Denton.
There has been a train derailment in Mansfield. Officials with the Mansfield Fire Department have confirmed dozens of cars derailed, with several flipping on their side.
A driver was stopped along some tracks in Sachse when a train started to approach. But she was unable to move her car far enough forward or backward to avoid a crash.
Train tracks have been repaired along a North Texas line following a freight train derailment after flooding washed away the tracks.
A freight train derailed near Valley View in Cooke County early Friday, leaving four railroad workers injured.
A West Texas judge has postponed further action in the trial of a lawsuit arising from a collision between a freight train and a veterans' parade float that killed four vets.
