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Metro had a string of three fatal accidents involving track workers in a little over a year. [22] In October 2005, a Metro employee was struck and killed at the Braddock Road station on the Blue and Yellow Lines. [23] In May 2006, another Metro employee died after being hit by a Red Line train at Dupont Circle station. [24]
A typical 5000-Series car similar to the stopped train in the crash at Branch Avenue Yard. The 1000-Series entered service in 1976 when the Metro system opened, and were refurbished and had their motors converted from DC to AC propulsion by Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie in the mid-1990s. In 2006, the NTSB cited the 1000-Series cars as ...
Map of derailment site, with cars shown in red. At 7:19 a.m. the train derailed 100 yards (91 m) north of the Spuyten Duyvil station, 11.4 miles (18.3 km) north of Grand Central, [1] just after it had passed the junction with the West Side Line's crossing over the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, where Amtrak's trains split off to go to Penn Station.
A man was arrested Monday in the death of a woman who was fatally stabbed on a Metro train, Los Angeles police said. The passenger, a woman in her 50s whose name has not been released, was found ...
Eight passengers and a train operator were killed in the collision and at least 70 people were injured. It is the deadliest accident in the history of the Washington Metro. [32] The National Transportation Safety Board's report of July 27, 2010, blamed the crash on a faulty track circuit, part of the automatic train control system.
Metro and the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority said it is reviewing its policies and working with police in the wake of the fatal crash. The agency said it was unaware of the driver's ...
A crash was reported at mile marker 19 near IL 158 at 3:23 a.m. Wednesday. State Police said in a statement to the BND that a Lexus driven by Jones was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes ...
1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [179] [180]