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Two Union Pacific employees are dead and three people are injured after a train hit a tractor-trailer stopped on the railroad tracks in Pecos, Texas, causing it to derail.
The majority of the 1,381 train-related deaths from 2019 to June 2022 involved people trespassing onto railroad tracks. In that same span, 13 railway employees have died in train accidents.
The derailment happened on the Union Pacific Railroad. Clean-up is underway, according to a Facebook post from the city . The post said all crossings were open as of 9:30 p.m. Monday.
The National Transportation Safety Board's final report detailed what caused the crash in the desert near the Salton Sea in September 2022. Investigators determined that mistakes made by dispatchers at the railroad's headquarters in Omaha led to the train being routed directly into the parked railcars.
29 July – United States – In Tempe, Arizona, a Union Pacific train derailed on the Salt River Bridge over Tempe Town Lake, injuring one. [24] 31 July – Portugal – Soure train crash: An Alfa Pendular high-speed passenger train derailed after colliding with a catenary maintenance vehicle, killing two and injuring 43. [25]
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.
On June 3, 2016, a Union Pacific train with 96 tank cars carrying Bakken oil from New Town, North Dakota to U.S. Oil and Refining in Tacoma, Washington derailed in the Columbia River Gorge near Mosier, Oregon. Sixteen of the 96 cars derailed after the train's emergency brake system about 18 cars back from the engines engaged - several cars then ...
The incident was reported about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities were investigating a fatal collision Wednesday evening in Sacramento County after a Union Pacific freight train struck a pedestrian ...