News tagged with 'Train Accidents'

The first wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with last Friday's collision of a Metrolink commuter train with a freight train. Southern California has been slow to adopt new technology that serves to prevent human error. With the technology, "there's no question the accident would not have occured," says attorney Paul Kiesel.

An Amtrak passenger train collided with a parked freight train outside of Chicago today. At least 47 are hurt, eight seriously. Antonio Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin LLC Chicago, with a specialty in mass transit litigation, has information for consumers on protecting your rights if you are involved in a train crash.  

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of last year's Amtrak Auto Train derailment near Crescent City, Florida, was a heat-induced track buckle that developed because of inadequate CSX Transportation track-surfacing operations. These operations included the misalignment of the curve

A truck collided with a commuter train outside of Los Angeles Monday, killing one person and injuring dozens more. According to witnesses, the truck's driver, whose name has not been released, was attempting to bypass a railroad crossing at an intersection 10 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, ignoring the lower

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are still trying to determine what caused yesterday's derailment of an Amtrak passenger train outside of Washington, D.C. A spokesperson for the NTSB said investigators are now focusing on the train's two event recorders, devices similar to an airplane's "

An Amtrak train traveling to Washington, D.C. from Chicago derailed this afternoon outside of Kensington, Maryland, about 10 miles north of the capital. Authorities at the scene say dozens of passengers were injured in the accident, six seriously. The train, carrying 190 passengers and 12 crewmembers, had 13 passenge

A jury recently awarded $30.1 million to a sanitation worker who suffered severe injuries when his truck was struck by a Union Pacific Railroad train. In January 1998, Charles Rolf was crossing Union Pacific railroad tracks on a county road outside of Goodwin, Arkansas when a train hit the back of his garbage truck.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported yesterday that faulty maintenance conducted by CSX Transportation may have contributed to last month's Amtrak crash in Florida. A spokesperson for the NTSB said in the months before the accident, CSX, which owns and maintains the tracks just s

CSX Transportation recently settled a lawsuit with the family of a 15-year-old boy who was killed when a coal train derailed and crashed into his home. The 80-car CSX train slammed into Eddie L. Rogers' house at close to 60 mph, spilling several tons of coal in the process. Asleep on his living room couch, Rogers suf

An Amtrak passenger train carrying 137 people derailed this morning outside of Ridgeland, South Carolina. Ten rail cars went off the track when the train slammed into a log truck at a crossing. Jasper County investigators say there were no fatalities although fifteen passengers were reported injured, two seriously.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) say a freight train involved in Tuesday's fatal accident outside of Los Angeles may have failed to heed a red warning light before colliding with a commuter train. NTSB chairwoman Marion Blakey told reporters Wednesday that investigators had ruled out

A malfunctioning signal light may have caused yesterday's fatal train wreck outside of Los Angeles according to officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Although a spokesperson for the NTSB said it is still too early in the investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident, investigator

Two people died and approximately 265 others were injured this morning when a mile-long Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train crashed into a Metrolink commuter train about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Several passengers are now in critical condition at local Orange County hospitals. Over seventy-five commu

Four people were killed and close to 160 others were injured yesterday when an Amtrak Auto Train derailed along a rural stretch of track in central Florida. According to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a track misalignment may have caused the Amtrak engineer to suddenly initiate an

An Illinois jury ordered two railroad companies last week to pay $55 million in damages to the victims of a dreadful train accident. Lilia Apulello, 40, was driving with her parents, Fidel and Francisca Velarde, in January 2001 when a Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad freight train slammed into her sports-utility ve