None of the 26 passengers aboard a Savannah-bound Amtrak passenger train was hurt when it collided with an SUV at a crossing in Garden City, Georgia on 15 April. The 49-year-old driver of the vehicle,...
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Late in April a man in a motorised wheelchair rolled off the platform at a Washington DC station and landed on the track. A 66-year-old neurologist visitor from Charlottetown, quickly verifying that...
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The 65-year-old driver of an 18-wheel rig died on 8 April when it was hit by a train near Rockdale in Milam County, Texas. Reportedly the vehicle turned off the highway onto a private road crossing...
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An Amtrak passenger train with 128 passengers on board crashed into a car left on the line in Allendale County, South Carolina. Fortunately no one was hurt. The two men who dumped the car reportedly...
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Commuter service on Washington DC's Green Line was disrupted on 15 April when a contractor's crane collided with a 17-metre-long concrete bridge which fell onto the four tracks it spanned. The...
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Streets were closed in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 13 April and about 70 people were asked to close windows and doors and remain indoors following the derailing of seven wagons in a Burlington...
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On 10 April, 30 residents within a 2km radius were evacuated after 39 wagons in a Norfolk Southern Railroad freight train came off the track in Trenton, South Carolina. One of the derailed tankcars...
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Track damage following the derailing of three Canadian National loaded grain wagons at Grande Prairie, Alberta, on 8 April provided a headache for repair crews, but local pigeons had a field day. The...
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On 10 April, 24 Canadian National grain wagons left the track in a spectacular accident near Kathyrn, Alberta, 32km north-east of Calgary. The vehicles landed up on their sides, parallel to each...
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On 10 April, 30 rural South Carolina residents were evacuated within 2km of a Norfolk Southern Railroad derailment. Press reports datelined Trenton, a small town of less than 250 people, said a...
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