Train Disaster News

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. As investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board continue their review of Friday's Metro-North train crash, they are looking at what role a fractured rail joint may have played in the accident, according to board member Earl Weener.

CHP is on scene at an accident near 170 Quarry Road and Carpenteria Road. Officers got the call of the big rig and Amtrak collision around 12:45 p.m. The Amtrak conductor told CHP the big rig was driving westbound on Quarry Road when it took a right turn onto a private road, that's when it hit the train.

Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left dozens injured.

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During rush hour in Connecticut, two commuter trains collided, sending 72 passengers to the hospital.

The work to rebuild the damaged tracks and overhead wires at the scene of the train derailment in Fairfield County "is a significant undertaking that could take days to complete," a statement from Metro-North officials said Saturday.

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.