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The 1938 South Jordan rail crossing disaster was a collision between a school bus and a train at a level crossing resulting in the deaths of 24 people, 23 of whom were students on their way to school. The accident is the basis for an urban legend in San Antonio, Texas. [1]
A pedestrian died Thursday after being hit by a train in east Fort Worth, authorities said. An eastbound Trinity Railway Express train struck a trespasser near Texas 360 and Trinity Boulevard.
Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely known as "Baby Jessica" in 1987 [1]) fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. Over the next 56 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing , about 22 ft (7 m) below grade.
The first recorded train suicide occurred in 1852 in England, [4] where rail development in Europe had been most advanced.In 1879 an Italian researcher noted that such suicides were most common in that country's northern Piedmont region, where similarly the rail network was at its most extensive.
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The 2005 Glendale train crash occurred on January 26, 2005, at 6:03 a.m. PST, when a Metrolink commuter train collided with a sport utility vehicle [2] that had been parked on the tracks by a suicidal man in an industrial area of Glendale, California, just east of the Los Angeles city limits, causing the deaths of 11 people and injuring 177 more.
Jul. 11—Sutter County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of someone being hit by a train at approximately 9:50 a.m. on Monday, officials said. The conductor of the Union Pacific Train said ...