On 1 April, a man lost his footing and was killed beneath a Metrorail commuter train at platform 18 on Cape Town's main station during the morning peak. An official was quoted saying the victim was...
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Five out of 250 people on a Bandung-Malang train in Java island, Indonesia, died on 4 April when three of the eight coaches were derailed by a landslide at Tasikmalaya. This was caused by heavy rain....
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On 28 March, a northbound freight train of the Norfolk Southern company derailed 19 wagons beneath a highway overpass near Ellisville, Mississippi. One wagon reportedly overturned. No hazardous cargo...
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Five Indiana teenagers who went to look at a derailed railway freight wagon have been charged with trespassing. One of them, a nineteen-year-old, won't forget the incident in a hurry. On their way...
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The spotlight has been on the Chicago Transit train that overshot the platform at O'Hare International Airport on 24 March and climbed halfway up an escalator. Nobody was killed but 32 were injured....
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On 21 March, the driver of a Toyota Avanza, carrying 12 children illegally, reportedly overtook vehicles waiting at a level crossing in Rustenburg, then stalled on the line and was hit by a train....
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Northeast Corridor service was temporarily suspended between New York and Trenton on 25 March after a man on the platform at New Brunswick station was struck and killed by a passing train. The...
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In an unusual Sunday afternoon incident a short distance east of Ottawa, a locomotive being towed behind Montreal-Toronto passenger train 57 caught fire near Alexandria at about 16:00. The train was...
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Two teenagers walking along the railway to a dance at the local high school in Marysville, California, on the evening of 21 March were hit from behind by a freight train. The boy died at the scene....
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On 11 March, four people died and 10 were injured when a minibus carrying “more than 30 workers” was hit by a Dohazari-Chittagong train at a Chandgaon crossing in Chittagong city. Witnesses told...
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