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24. The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision was a grade crossing collision that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, on the morning of October 25, 1995. The school bus, driven by a substitute driver, was stopped at a traffic light with the rearmost portion extending onto a portion of the railroad ...
Crash ultimately doomed Wisconsin's only rapid transit line [154] 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, New York City; 78 killed plus hundreds injured in deadliest surface rail accident in New York. [155] 1951 Woodbridge train wreck, Woodbridge, New Jersey; ~85 killed plus hundreds injured.
The accident occurred about 7.50 p.m., and it was dark at the time. The train was travelling at from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour. The train consisted of a locomotive, three carriages, and one van. The locomotive kept to the track, but the first two carriages fell, the one nearest the engine rolling on its side.
May 2 – India – A car carrying munitions exploded at a Central Railway marshalling yard at Bhusaval station, killing seven people and injuring 31. [105] May 31 – Romania – Soon after starting from Bucharest, an express to Galați collided with a local train; 38 people were killed and 65 were injured.
Six people are dead, including three children, after a train crashed into a car crossing railroad tracks in Hillsborough County, Florida, on Saturday evening.
122. On March 15, 1999, Amtrak's southbound City of New Orleans passenger train collided with a semi-trailer truck in the village of Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States. Most of the train derailed, killing eleven people. A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation into the accident attributed the cause to the truck driver ...
The 2002 Placentia train collision occurred at around 8:10 am. PDT on April 23, 2002, when a BNSF Railway freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on at Control Point Atwood (CP Atwood) in Placentia, California, United States. This was the first fatal crash in the history of Metrolink, and was the second major rail incident in ...
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1] The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90; for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster (the worst in ...