Ottawa bus drivers are especially alert approaching level crossings, unable to forget the horrific collision between a double-deck bus and a train in September 2013, when six people died. Recently...
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William James, 60, had a slight accident when he bumped his van into a car at a filling station in Wilmington, North Carolina. The driver of the car confronted James, who turned round and sped away....
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On 13 February, a 120-wagon Norfolk Southern freight train headed from Conway to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, derailed 21 tankcars at the town of Vandergrift. Nineteen were carrying oil - of which three...
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Very cold weather with heavy snow at the end of January meant many intercity train cancellations in the United States. Worst hit was Chicago. On 28 January, Lincoln Service trains 300, 301, 306 and...
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Following the derailing of 14 wagons in a southbound Union Pacific freight near Morrow, Louisiana, on 25 January, state police closed the adjacent U S Highway 71 until clean-up operations were...
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Four tankcars in a 23-wagon freight train en route from Waycross in Georgia to Mobile, Alabama, derailed near Molino, Florida, during a massive storm on 5 February. An estimated 135,000 litres of...
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Seven out of 152 wagons in a Canadian National Railway (CN) freight train derailed near Burnaby Lake in British Columbia on 12 January. Four remained upright but the others overturned, spilling coal...
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On 7 January, 19 tankcars in a 122-wagon train derailed at Plaster Rock in New Brunswick (eastern Canada), 32km from the border with Maine in the USA. Three tankcars carrying liquefied petroleum gas...
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On 31 January, highways were closed at New Augusta, a small town in south-eastern Mississippi, when tankcars in a freight train derailed. Though nobody was injured in the accident, some 50 people were...
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On 29 January, a 48-year-old Montreal commuter died in a freak accident at an underground rail station, when her scarf reportedly caught in an escalator. Press coverage of the incident based on...
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