A 49-year-old resident of Salt Lake City has been sent to jail for 210 days after a fatal accident. Fregoso Avina was charged with negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanour, and class C misdemeanour...
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The derailment of a freight train on 19 February resulted in serious damage to a bridge on the main-line from South Africa to Maputo in Mozambique. Since then, including all of March and half of...
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On 11 April, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) temporarily suspended train operations due to a problem some 64km from Dar es Salaam. According to the public announcement: "Tazara regrets...
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Year to 31 March 2013 (2012 in brackets)
' Train-on-train collisions: 5 (5)
' Running line derailments: 87 (85)
' Shunting derailments TFR: 295 (296)
' Private line shunting derailments: 215...
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In a strange incident on 27 March, shortly after a 06:20 station stop at Port Huron the second of two diesel locomotives heading an Amtrak passenger train to Chicago left the track near the east end...
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In 2012, the number of railway accidents in Canada were similar to 2011's count, but the number of rail-related fatalities rose slightly, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB)....
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On 24 June 2011, six passengers in an Amtrak express died and 15 were hurt when a Peterbilt articulated rig slammed into the side of their train at a crossing on US Route 95. Following the horrific...
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On 28 January, a man sitting on the rails some 3km from the nearest public crossing was killed by a freight train in Roseville, California. Local police said they were alerted to the fatality but were...
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A recent derailment occurred near Greylingstad, 109km south-east of Germiston on the main-line to Durban. Details are sketchy but passer-by Sandy Buchanan (on the adjacent road) reported seeing 'four...
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Railway signalman Adrian Maund, 43, appeared recently in the Birmingham Crown Court, following a most unfortunate January 2010 incident at the Moreton-on-Lugg (Herefordshire) level crossing. Maund...
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