July 16, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by David Heitz appeared on the Quad City Times website on July 15, 2009.) DAVENPORT, Iowa — Heavy equipment picked up pieces of twisted rail car wreckage Wednesday as recovery workers and officials from Canadian Pacific Rail Police and Dakota,...
July 15, 2009 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on July 14, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Transportation Safety Board Member Debbie Hersman today, testifying before Congress, described a multi-faceted National Transportation Safety Board...
July 15, 2009 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Quad City Times website on July 14, 2009.) DAVENPORT, Iowa — Two men were killed Tuesday when a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad freight train ran into a group of stationary cars, railroad and federal officials said Tuesday....
July 10, 2009 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Cecil Angel, Amber Hunt, Tammy Stables Battaglia and Matt Helms appeared on the Detroit Free Press website on July 9, 2009.) DETROIT — Four young Downriver residents and a Virginia man were killed today after they drove around a crossing gate...
July 1, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Rachel Donadio and Sofia Groopman appeared on the New York Times website on July 1, 2009.) ROME — A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed in a quiet seaside Italian neighborhood, engulfing a neighborhood in flames and leaving 17...
June 26, 2009 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on June 25, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board continues to make progress in its investigation of the June 22, 2009, accident involving the collision of two Washington...
June 26, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Lena H. Sun and Maria Glod appeared on the Washington Post website on June 26, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A train control system that should have prevented Monday’s deadly Metro crash failed in a test conducted by federal investigators,...
June 25, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Michael Laris appeared on the Washington Post website on June 25, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The deadly crash Monday on Metro’s Red Line has raised a political question: Do federal, state and local officials have the will to pay for a...
June 25, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Lyndsey Layton, Maria Glod and Lena H. Sun appeared on the Washington Post website on June 25, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators said yesterday that they found “anomalies” in a key component of the electronic control...
June 24, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Allison Klein and Michael E. Ruane appeared on the Washington Post website on June 24, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was so quiet. A half-hour after a Metro train had slammed into another, when no one was sure who was alive and who was dead, a...
