By Bianca Brito
Fatal Amtrak Derailment Early afternoon on June 27th, an Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed after colliding with a dump truck. The incident took place in Mendon, Missouri with approximately 275 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The truck was obstructing an intersection of the collision. Over 150 people were taken […]
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On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, federal investigators pressed Amtrak officials regarding what the railroad company is doing to ensure passenger safety after two recent fatal crashes in Washington State and South Carolina. In December 2017, Amtrak train 501 derailed in DuPont, Washington, killing three passengers and injuring dozens more. In February 2018, an […]
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Over the weekend, an Amtrak passenger train traveling between New York and Miami was wrongly diverted to a side track and crashed into a freight train in South Carolina. Two Amtrak employees were killed and 116 of the 147 passengers on board were injured. Amtrak train 91 should have traveled straight down the tracks but […]
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On Monday, an Amtrak commuter train on its inaugural trip from Seattle to Portland jumped the tracks on a bridge, sending train cards into traffic on the busy interstate highway below. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovered through their investigation that the train was traveling at twice the posted speed limit. “Preliminary indications are […]
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A SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line train crashed into an unoccupied train Tuesday morning at the 69th St. Transportation Center, injuring 42 people. There were 41 passengers on board, plus the operator, when the crash occurred just after midnight. Injured passengers were taken to eight area hospitals by Upper Darby, PA emergency responders. SEPTA officials […]
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In May 2015, an Amtrak commuter train traveling North on the Northeast Corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City derailed at the Frankford Junction curve in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, killing eight and injuring hundreds. On Thursday, only 17 months after the incident took place, federal district Judge Legrome Davis signed off […]
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On Sunday, April 3, 2016, two people were killed and at least 35 others injured after an Amtrak train traveling the Northeast Corridor en route to Savannah, GA crashed into a backhoe on the train tracks. Up until recently, it was unknown how the train operator didn’t know there were construction workers on the track […]
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Sunday, an Amtrak train traveling from New York City, NY to Savannah, GA derailed just south of Philadelphia after crashing into a backhoe, killing two and injuring 35. Since then, an investigation into the cause of the crash has raised more questions than it’s answered. It is confirmed that the fatalities were two long-time employees […]
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In May 2015, an Amtrak train traveling the Northeast Corridor from Washington D.C. to New York City derailed in Port Richmond, killing eight and injuring hundreds. In October 2015, an Amtrak train traveling southbound on the Northeast Corridor from Vermont to Washington D.C. derailed after hitting falling debris, injuring seven. This morning, April 3, 2016, […]
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