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Gibson, California: Fire 2 61 A fire of unknown cause took place in a passenger car. RAR-83-03: April 3, 1983 Crescent: Rockfish, Virginia: Derailment 0 24 The train derailed due to debris from a landslide. RAR-83-10 July 28, 1983 State House: Wilmington, Illinois: Grade crossing 0 21 The train struck a delivery truck at the grade crossing. RAR ...
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]
Sketch of the accident site. The San Bernardino train disaster (sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident or the 1989 Cajon Pass Runaway), was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline ...
The Mountain Fire in California's Ventura County, whose explosive growth was fueled by 80-mph winds last week, has burned 32 square miles as of Tuesday. As winds slowed, firefighters raised the ...
Three people were killed and two injured after an Amtrak train crashed into a vehicle obstructing the railway tracks near Brentwood, California, on Sunday. 3 dead, 2 injured after Amtrak train ...
January 3 – India – Ghatnandur train crash: 18 people died in a collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra [40] January 31 – Australia – Waterfall rail accident: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffered a heart attack and died; the train then sped out of control and derailed on a curve, overturning several cars and killing six passengers.
February 16 – United Kingdom – An express passenger train derailed at Bushey, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail. 19 people were seriously injured. [1] April 2 – United States – Lakeview, North Carolina: Amtrak's Silver Star collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train during dense fog, injuring 123. It was determined that ...
Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, likely the costliest in U.S. history, are seizing upon a unique California legal doctrine that allows them to collect from their power utility if its ...