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Critics said train companies had failed to invest in maintenance to prevent accidents, even though they conduct stock buybacks, in which capital that could be used for maintenance and safety measures is instead used by the company to purchase shares of its own stock at market price, thus increasing the market capitalization of the company and ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened an investigation into the accident [11] and dispatched a 20-member Go Team to the crash site. [55] The NTSB said its investigators would be on-site for seven to ten days. [17] One aspect of the investigation was whether the engineer lost situational awareness. [56]
The train conductor told a BNSF investigator that a misaligned switch led to the crash and that a padlock that was supposed to be attached to the switch was missing, the documents said ...
Two Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office employees have been demoted after supervisors discovered a backlog of 700-plus fraud complaints stretching back years. The result: Hundreds of cases cannot ...
Map of the train's position following the derailment Aerial view of the derailed train. At about 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Amtrak's northbound Northeast Regional No. 188 led by Amtrak ACS-64 601 departed Philadelphia's 30th Street Station en route to New York City from Washington D.C. [2] [10] [11] The train consisted of seven cars hauled by a year-old Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS)-64 ...
The state ranks number one in staged car accidents across the US according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau [20] [21] and is the most expensive state for auto insurance. Being a no-fault insurance state that requires a certain amount of personal injury protection for auto insurance, [ 22 ] insurance companies are required to pay up to ...
Philadelphia attorney Gary Schildhorn received a call from who he believed was his son, saying that he needed money to post bail following a car crash. Mr Schildhorn later found out he nearly fell ...
1863 Chunky Creek Train Wreck, Hickory, Mississippi; ~75 killed plus ~25 injured.All but one of the dead were Confederate reinforcements headed for Vicksburg, with the disaster--Mississippi's deadliest rail disaster to date--further hindering the city's defenses against Union forces [12]