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March 24 – United States – Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident: a school bus was struck by a freight train at a level crossing in Rockland County, New York, near the New York City suburbs of Congers and Valley Cottage, killing five students. The bus driver was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to probation; the accident ...
January 14 – Ghana – An express train derailed between Accra and Kumasi, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 200. [10]January 19 – France – An RER A express train in Paris at Auber station crashed, killing one person and injuring 73 in a rear-end collision caused by the train driver misunderstanding a new signaling system installed only two days earlier.
The train engineer saw the bus cross the tracks and immediately applied the brakes. However, the train's momentum carried it through the crossing, where it collided with the bus. The freight train ripped through the school bus, severing it into two sections, with the front half coming to rest a quarter mile (1,116 ft) down the tracks.
The trains crash head-on; 29 are killed and another 22 injured. [107] [108] November 16 – United States – The New York Central's Chicagoan, detoured off its normal route from Chicago to New York and thus behind schedule, runs at 48 mph (77 km/h) through a 15 mph (24 km/h) construction zone near White Pigeon, Michigan.
1918 Malbone Street Wreck, New York City; 95-100 killed plus 100+ injured. Remains the deadliest rail disaster in the History of New York state and the New York City Subway [100] [101] 1919 New York Central collision, Byron, New York; 22 killed [102] [103] 1919 Onawa train wreck, Onawa, Maine; 23 killed plus 50 injured.
March 15 – United States – 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash: The Amtrak City of New Orleans, traveling at approximately 80 miles per hour (130 km/h), slammed into a semi-trailer truck loaded with steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) at a grade crossing and derails. An ensuing fire set one Superliner sleeper car ablaze.
The crash comes more than a year after India experienced one of the worst train disasters in the country’s history, when more than 280 people were killed in a three-way collision involving two ...
Valhalla, New York 3 February – United States – Valhalla train crash: A Metro-North Railroad train struck a Mercedes-Benz SUV at a crossing near Valhalla, New York, and caught fire, killing six people. [271] 13 February – India – Anekal derailment: Derailment of an Intercity Express in Bangalore, killed ten and injured 150. [272] [273]