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Murder of Nia Wilson. On July 22, 2018, three sisters, Nia, Letifah and Tashiya Wilson, [2] were attacked by a man wielding a knife, later identified as John Cowell, after exiting a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train at MacArthur station in Oakland, California. 18-year-old Nia Wilson died after her throat was slashed.
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 [177] [178]
On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. A 57-year-old VTA employee, Samuel James Cassidy, shot and killed nine VTA employees before committing suicide. [ 1 ][ 4 ] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Published April 6, 2023 at 12:12 PM. Screengrab from KTLA video. An 11-year-old girl died when a train hit her mother’s car on the tracks in Redlands, California police reported. The girl’s ...
California Zephyr: Salduro, Utah: Train collision 0 24 The train collided with a Union Pacific freight train. April 18, 2002 Auto Train: Crescent City, Florida: Derailment 4 142 The train derailed due to a heat-induced kink in the track. RAR-03-02: July 29, 2002 Capitol Limited: Kensington, Maryland: Derailment 0 95 The train derailed due to a ...
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old Black man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on ...
2006. June 14, 2006 – The Kismet Train Collision - Two BNSF Railway freight trains collide head-on in Madera, California, due to one of the trains running a red signal, injuring 5 people. One of the train's crew members, the one that ran the red, is suspected to be high on cocaine. There was a camera on board one of the locomotives involved ...
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The scene of the collision was a curved section of single ...