#train-accidents

#train-accidents

The motorcycle driver, identified as 32-year-old Andy Peralta, made a left turn onto West Mosholu Parkway South after traveling northbound on Jerome Avenue, driving against traffic before colliding with the bus.

True high-speed rail in the U.S. is still years away despite recent advancements and public support. Rail experts emphasize that actual high-speed rail requires dedicated infrastructure and faster trains, similar to systems in Europe and Asia.

The Maimonides Medical Center ambulance struck Cherry Cayetano Sobel, 44, about a mile and a half from her Midwood home. The driver didn't stop.

"Is everybody telling the truth? We're not sure," Program Director Kim Comstock told the San Mateo County Transportation Authority on Thursday.

The elevator fell multiple floors with someone inside and abruptly stopped when the emergency brakes were activated. While the brakes fortunately kept the elevator from crashing into the bottom of the elevator shaft, the sudden stop caused the person to sustain moderate to severe injuries.

While dozens of other countries have delivered fast, modern train networks, we are stuck with a skeletal system built largely on slow, 19th-century alignments. Even developing nations are passing us by. There is growing recognition at the federal level that things need to change, but substantial and comprehensive reform would require an act of Congress.

No. 7 train service was shut down in both directions between Hunters Point Avenue in Long Island City and 34th Street-Hudson Yards in Manhattan after a reported track fire near the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue station. FDNY units headed into the tunnel and trains were held while crews checked for smoke and other hazards, leaving riders to deal with delays and longer travel times while the area was secured.

GO Train service has been halted on a stretch of the Lakeshore West line after a person was struck in the area, Metrolinx says. The provincial transit agency confirmed the fatality in a statement Wednesday. Metrolinx says the person was hit between Long Branch GO and Port Credit GO stations, and there is now no service on the Lakeshore West line in that area.

Footage of the incident, which took place January 15, shows the robot sitting motionless on the tracks, seemingly making no attempt to get out of the way as the unmistakable blare of the train horn gets louder and louder. "Oh it's gonna crush it!" the onlooker taking the video can be heard saying moments before the train, operated by Brightline, flattens the unfortunate bot into the tracks. Sparks can be seen flying from beneath the train before the video cuts off.

One person died and nine others were injured in a collision between a bus and a train locomotive in the northern German city of Hamburg, the city's fire service said Friday. All the victims were inside the bus at the time of the accident, a fire service spokesman told AFP. The bus driver is in a "life-threatening" situation, with two other passengers seriously injured and six lightly injured, he said.

Let's start with the biggest issue on the horizon: the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. Yes, the ultimate decision is about a year away. But sides are lining up for and against, and right now, the Surface Transportation Board, which is colloquially known as STB -- the railroads' economic regulator -- is considering the details of how the rules governing that decision will be applied.

Also on this date: In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting Black American men the right to vote, was ratified. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. In 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, was sunk by a U-boat off Britain (after the crew was allowed to board lifeboats).

Spain's railway system is under more scrutiny than ever after a commuter train crashed near Barcelona, just days after at least 42 people died in a collision between two high-speed trains. A train driver died and 37 people were injured - several seriously - late on Tuesday when the commuter train hit a retaining wall that fell onto the tracks in Gelida near Barcelona, regional officials said.

A man was killed Monday when a Union Pacific train struck him near Hearst Avenue. Berkeley police received a call that a train had hit someone near the University Avenue overpass shortly before 11:40 a.m., according to a department spokesperson. When officers arrived at the tracks, they found the dead man and notified the Union Pacific Police Department. The man had been trespassing on the train tracks, Jill Micek, a Union Pacific spokesperson, said in an email.

A train collided with a car stuck on the tracks in Emeryville early Saturday morning, according to a police department press release. Shortly after 1 a.m., a woman reportedly turned onto the railroad tracks and became stuck. She exited the vehicle before an oncoming train hit it. The vehicle subsequently caught fire. Authorities stated that the railway was shut down temporarily so emergency response, fire suppression, vehicle removal and a full inspection of the tracks could take place.

Spain's transportation minister, Oscar Puente, admitted on Wednesday the undeniable possibility that the cause of the train crash that claimed 43 lives in Adamuz (Cordoba) might lie in a faulty section of track, based on the bite marks detected on the running gear of one of the two trains involved in the accident, as well as on other trains that had previously traveled along the same stretch.

The crash happened shortly before 3 p.m. on Jan. 22 at the Iron Point Station, near an outlet mall next to Highway 50, the Sacramento Regional Transit District said. The car reportedly veered off Iron Point Road, hit a tree at the edge of the mall's parking lot, then continued about 200 feet across the lot and crashed into the elevated train platform. It struck a person on the platform, then flipped over a railing and landed on the train track.

The NYPD is investigating after a man was found dead aboard a Manhattan train on Sunday. According to police sources, cops from Transit District 4 were conducting an inspection of a northbound Q train just after midnight on Feb. 1, after it had pulled into the end of the line on East 96 Street and Second Avenue subway station, when they discovered a 34-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive.