Archive for the ‘Transportation incident’ Category
Belgium: A passenger train crashes into the back of a goods train at high speed leaving at least 3 dead and 40 injured
Monday, June 6th, 2016Oil train derails in Columbia River Gorge
Saturday, June 4th, 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4wHxTaR0AU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W640V3fcOxs
I-95 N of Orlando: 3 children die and 8 others are injured as an SUV loses control and rolls over
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016A charter bus heading to a casino crashed in far South Texas on Saturday, killing 8 and injuring 44 others in a one-vehicle rollover
Sunday, May 15th, 2016Afghanistan: A fuel tanker collided head-on with two buses on a roadway early Sunday, setting all 3 vehicles on fire and killing at least 70 people.
Monday, May 9th, 2016
Train 89 was heading from New York to Savannah, Georgia, at about 8 a.m. Sunday when it hit heavy equipment on the track in Chester, PA, knocking the lead engine off the rails.
Monday, April 4th, 2016
** 2 Amtrak workers were killed
** More than 30 passengers were sent to hospitals with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
Ghana: A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck killed at least 61 people
Friday, February 19th, 2016
Update: The Bavarian Train Collision
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016- At least 10 people were killed and scores more were injured, 18 seriously.
- The accident occurred on a single-track route between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen at about 07:00 local time (06:00 GMT)
- Officials say they assume both train drivers had no visual contact before the crash as the site is on a bend – and therefore crashed into each other largely without braking
- The stretch of line had an automatic braking system designed to halt any train that passed a stop signal. It is not yet known why this failed to stop the crash
- Two of the three data recorders or “black boxes” on board the trains have been recovered