Train Disaster News

Malloy said during a Friday night press conference near the scene of Friday's train collision.

The diver of a semi-trailer truck has walked away without serious injury after his vehicle collided with a freight train in eastern Illinois.

Officials toured the scene of a two-train collision in Connecticut that injured dozens of people and halted rail traffic from New York to Boston on Friday.

Several people appear to be hurt, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known.

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Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested... Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the ... (more)

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.

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A VIA Rail employee climbs aboard an F40 locomotive at the train station in Ottawa on Monday, December 3, 2012.

HONG KONG : Over 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.

A third notice of claim against the county was filed on behalf of the estate of a man killed in a November plane crash at the Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head.

Approximately 60 people were taken to hospitals this evening - five with critical injuries - when a New York-area commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Conn., knocking a second train coming the other way off the tracks, officials said.

Two trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut after what was described as a major derailment about an hour outside of New York City on Friday, with some 60 passengers injured in one of the region's major commuter corridors.

Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday when two trains collided on a commuter line near Fairfield, Connecticut, but there were no reports of fatalities, police and transit authorities said on Friday.

Twenty-two people were injured, four of them seriously, when two commuter trains collided in Connecticut during the Friday evening rush hour, police said.

A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut. Police say that 20 or more people were injured, but that there were no fatalities.

Police and Norfolk Southern railroad officials are investigating a train-truck collision in Catlin early Friday afternoon, in which the truck driver managed to walk away without any major injuries.

A heart-stopping scene at a Philadelphia subway station when a stroller falls onto a set of train tracks with a baby strapped inside.

Philadelphia transit officials say an old-fashioned but vital piece of safety equipment helped avert disaster when a stroller carrying a toddler fell onto train tracks.

Sixty-two people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.