3 People Killed After Train Strikes Vehicles in Arizona More GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has said that three people were killed after a train crashed into two vehicles near Kingman in Arizona. Police responded to the accident on Saturday afternoon...
Sumwalt said that positive train control -- a GPS-based safety system that can automatically slow or stop trains -- could have prevented the accident. "That's what it's designed to do," he said, referring to technology that regulators have been pressing for for decades with mixed su...
New York, to Grand Central Terminal in New York City derailed as it was going around a left-hand curve. Despite a maximum speed of 30 mph permitted around the curve, the train was traveling at 82 mph when it derailed. The accident killed four passengers...
Using past passenger rail accidents as a guide, some lawyers expect damages from the crash to be similar to a 2008 accident in Los Angeles, which resulted in a $200 million payout to victims. In that crash,the train's engineer was textingand didn't stop at a red signal when the train...
Amtrak President Richard Anderson on Friday urged faster national rollout of another safety measure, Positive Train Control (PTC), that can automatically slow speeding trains and might have prevented the Washington accident. PTC must be installed on all U.S. trains and tracks by the end ...
The accident happened in Luling, Texas, which is about 58 miles east of San Antonio. According to theNEWS4SA, the intersection is "the first exit to Luling off of U.S. 183," and locals know it as a dangerous crossing. That same report says that the truck was one of a few tractor...
Woman whose arm was caught in Poundworldmachineto remain in hospital... Gazette Live A woman was taken to hospital after her arm was caught in amachinewhile at work. The 24-year-old was working at Poundworld in Captain Cook Square, Middlesbrough, when the “industrialaccident” happened earli...
There were no fatalities or significant injuries as a result of the accident, according to East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway. “The train crew was fine,” Mayor Conaway said. As of Saturday morning, there was no indication of how the train derailed. ...
Unfortunately, just under 4 months later we would lose Kenny to a terrible accident. For me it was like losing a friend that you were just beginning to know and appreciate. But for so many more, it was a devastating heartbreak. And for everyone, it was a loss of a comic who was just...
Many concur it is a shame positive train control wasn’t installed already in places such as Frankford Junction, the curve in the track where this week’s train crash happened. That includes Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman. “Had it been installed, it would have been prevented this accident,” ...