Posts tagged railroad accidents

• Metrolink Train Wreck - Three Serious Injuries

  IB Contributor | March 04, 2007 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Riverside-Corona crossing has high accident rate.According to a story in the Press Enterprise, Metrolink Train 804 slammed into a van that then hit another car early Friday evening during rush hour. Five people were taken to hospitals, three in serious condition. None of the passengers on the Metrolink train were injured according to Riverside fire Battalion Chief Mike Esparza.The accident...

• Train Kills Pedestrian

  Christina Cole | March 03, 2007 9:29 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  2nd Fatality in One Week at Same Railroad Crossing.In a railroad accident on Friday morning, a 23-year-old Suisun City Man, was killed by a westbound Amtrak train when attempting to cross the railroad tracks at Sunset Avenue.According to the preliminary investigation, police believe the man was traveling north on Sunset Avenue toward the tracks. At that same time the train was traveling east and...

• Watts Teenager Killed By Commuter Train

  Shannon Weidemann | February 25, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A 14-year-old boy was killed by a Metro Blue Line Commuter Train. He was crossing the tracks at the intersection of East 92nd Street and Graham Avenue. An eyewitness said the victim was standing in the middle of the tracks when he was struck. The teenager was hit Thursday afternoon in Watts as he walked home from school. Witnesses said he was in the middle of the train tracks when warning...

• Safety Advisory on Railroad Maintenance Equipment

  IB Contributor | January 30, 2007 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The Federal Railroad Administration on Friday issued a safety advisory to railroad industry owners and operators urging them to ensure that specialized maintenance equipment is only operated by fully qualified individuals and is properly inspected.Last week's warning came in response to a deadly derailment in November 2006 involving a rail grinder train, according to a press release posted on...

• Man Recovering after Train Accident

  Christina Cole | January 27, 2007 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Two weeks after a Acampo ranch butcher was critically injured when his truck was hit by a train, his condition is improving.Mike McMahon, 48, at one point was comatose and the doctors had told his family it could be months before he would wake up. But he has since regained consciousness and begun walking, though Doctors have yet to say when he will be released.Ellis says he will likely file a...

• TSA Will Start Monitoring Railroad Freight Cars

  IB Contributor | January 25, 2007 1:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The Transportation Security Administration for the first time, will start a nationwide tracking system to determine how long rail cars filled with toxic chemicals are stopped on tracks or sit in unsecured storage yards in urban areas, according to an article in USA Today by Thomas Frank. TSA officials say unguarded rail cars filled with toxic chemicals such as chlorine in cities are the single...

• Toxic Train Wreck Endangers Community

  IB Contributor | January 17, 2007 12:05 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An 80-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in Kentucky Tuesday and caught on fire. The incident sickened 11 people, who inhaled the toxic fumes, according to several news reports. Among the chemicals carried by the derailed cars was butadiene, a potential carcinogen used to produce synthetic rubber, chlorine residue and methyl ethyl ketone, an industrial solvent that can...