News tagged with 'Train Accidents'

A Florida East Coast Railway train collided with a Pompano Beach, Florida man last weekend, killing him instantly. The man was reportedly lying on the tracks when the train ran over him at close to forty miles per hour. Broward Sheriff officials said the conductor did not have enough time to stop the train. Authorit

The driver of a tractor was killed and seventeen train passengers were injured last week when an eight-car Amtrak Surfliner carrying 150 passengers collided with the farm vehicle in Camarillo, California. Investigators say the driver of the tractor was killed instantly. Witnesses report that the tractor caught fire a

A train collision in downtown Chicago during Friday morning rush hour injured more than 140 people. The elevated trains collided about 9 a.m., leaving hundreds of passengers stranded for hours. Service on other trains traveling along the same track was also interrupted. In the middle of Friday's rush hour, one

Ten people required medical treatment following the derailment of an Amtrak train near Sabula, Missouri. The train, bound for Dallas, left Chicago with 174 passengers and 12 employees but derailed at 2:17 a.m. in a rural area where recent heavy rains may have damaged the tracks. Three cars and one engine derailed, lan

When a CSX engineer climbed off a locomotive to adjust a switch, he thought he had activated all three brake systems. He was wrong. Two of the three brake systems were set correctly, but the engineer mistakenly pulled the throttle lever instead of the brake for the third system. Unmanned, the 47-car train traveled mo

On February 5, 2001 an Amtrak train traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City rear-ended a freight train. 68 people were injured. Of the passengers' injuries, 15 were classified as serious and 4 as critical. Most of the train's passengers suffered minor cuts and bruises. The most seriously injured were riding n

Two cars of the Angels Flight railway, the historic downtown Los Angeles attraction, malfunctioned today injuring several passengers. The accident occurred near the bottom of the incline when the two wooden cars collided. The cars normally travel in opposite directions and only pass at the center of the incline where