Prosecutor to Wait on Charges in Fatal Arkansas Bus Crash
A state police report into a November bus crash that killed six migrant farm workers from Mexico says the driver was “inattentive” in an unsafe manner, but decisions on possible traffic citations or...
View ArticleNTSB Blames Poor Oversight in Deadly Illinois Truck Crash
Failed safety oversight was partly to blame for a deadly crash near Chicago in which a truck driver for a company already flagged as high-risk fell asleep and plowed into emergency vehicles, a federal...
View ArticleAt Least 32 Injured in Amtrak Train Derailment in Kansas
An engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes before a passenger train derailed in western Kansas early on March 14, an official said. The Amtrak train apparently...
View ArticleInvestigators Looking at Rail Condition in Kansas Amtrak Derailment
Investigators looking into the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in southwest Kansas will review rail conditions and other factors to determine the cause of the accident, a federal transportation...
View ArticleNTSB: Feed Truck Shifted Track Before Kansas Amtrak Accident
A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people,...
View Article2 Killed After Amtrak Train Hits Backhoe Near Philadelphia
An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, killing two people and sending more than 30 others to hospitals, authorities said....
View ArticleNTSB: Kansas Derailment Site Track Damage Traced to Grain Truck
The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Kansas in March that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck,...
View ArticleAmtrak Ordered to Retrain Workers Following Deadly Crash Outside Philly
Amtrak has been ordered to retrain rail workers on basic safety rules days after a train going 106 miles per hour struck and killed two Amtrak employees working on the same track just south of...
View ArticleKansas Feed Yard Sued over Damaged Tracks, Derailment
Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 32 passengers in March. In the suit filed by...
View ArticleRail Union Blames Corporate Changes at Amtrak for Worker Deaths
Railroad union leaders say a “perfect storm” of corporate changes at Amtrak is largely to blame for two workers being killed on tracks near Philadelphia. In a letter sent on April 13 to Amtrak...
View ArticleNTSB Investigating Texas Bus Crash That Left 8 Dead, 44 Hurt
Federal authorities are investigating a charter bus crash in far South Texas that killed eight people and injured 44 more in a single-vehicle rollover, officials said. Seven people died at the scene...
View ArticleInvestigators Say Amtrak Engineer Was Distracted Before 2015 Philly Crash
The Amtrak engineer at the controls of a speeding train that derailed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was distracted in the moments before the accident, U.S. investigators are...
View ArticleVehicle Problems Not New for Bus Company in South Texas Crash
The small South Texas bus company involved in a rollover crash that killed eight people and injured 44 others had twice been ordered by Louisiana state inspectors in 2015 to take one of its buses off...
View ArticleBus in Fatal Texas Crash Had Seatbelts Only in First Row
Officials investigating a charter bus crash that killed eight people and injured 44 on a rain-slicked South Texas highway said that the vehicle had seat belts only in the first row. Texas Department of...
View ArticleFamily of Worker Killed in Pennsylvania Amtrak Crash Files Suit
A lawyer filing suit over a fatal Amtrak crash near Philadelphia blamed a “colossal miscommunication” for the deaths of two rail workers killed when a train traveling 106 mph struck a backhoe on the...
View ArticleHouston Ship Channel Pilot Blamed for 2015 Collision, Chemical Spill
Federal safety experts say errors by a Houston Ship Channel pilot likely caused the 2015 collision between two 600-foot vessels that led to a chemical spill. The Houston Chronicle reported that the...
View ArticleInvestigators Find Main Wreckage Sites of Crashed EgyptAir Flight 804
Investigators found the main wreckage sites of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed last month over the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board. A search team provided images of the Airbus Group SE...
View ArticleCockpit Voice Recorder Retrieved from Doomed EgyptAir Flight
Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to plunge into the sea, killing all...
View ArticleAs Texas Train Wreckage Smolders, BNSF Says Technology May Have Prevented Crash
Wreckage from a train collision continued to smolder on June 29 in the Texas Panhandle as workers prepared to remove the charred, twisted box cars from the tracks and renew their search for three...
View ArticleNTSB: Parts of Plane that Crashed in Illinois Scattered Nearly a Mile
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says a plane that crashed southwest of Chicago killing the pilot and setting a house on fire, left nearly a mile-long trail of debris before...
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