December 2, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 2, 2013) NEW YORK — A member of the National Transportation Board says a second data recorder has been retrieved from the train involved in a fatal New York City derailment. The crash Sunday killed four people and injured more than...
November 26, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 26, 2013) PAULSBORO, N.J. — U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews called Monday for more vigorous, independent oversight of railroads, nearly a year after a train derailment in Paulsboro caused the release of a toxic chemical and forced...
November 20, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Globe Gazette, November 19, 2013) MASON CITY, Iowa — The National Transportation Safety Board says unsecured railroad cars are the probable cause of the death of a Union Pacific railroad worker in Mason City in 2012. Georgiy Solovlyov, 36, of Stanhope, a...
November 8, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Connecticut Post, November 7, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Metro-North official Stephen Neville’s voice wavered Thursday as he recounted the day nearly six months ago when tragedy struck the New Haven Line near Bridgeport, referring to it as the...
November 6, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, November 5, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A fatal accident in which a freight train struck a parade float in Texas last November was caused by the failure of both the city and the parade organizer to address the...
November 5, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Associated Press, November 4, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cheers of support from a flag-waving crowd watching a parade turned into shouts of horror when a freight train rammed into a float carrying veterans and their wives in Midland, Texas, last year. Four...
November 1, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 31, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today released the final agenda for the two-day investigative hearing on two recent Metro-North train accidents in Connecticut....
November 1, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 31, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of the November 2012 fatal grade-crossing accident involving a parade float in Texas....
October 23, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The Journal News, October 22, 2013) NEW YORK — Federal hearings into a Metro-North Railroad derailment that injured dozens and an accident that killed a foreman have been rescheduled for Nov. 6 and 7. The original National Transportation Safety Board...
October 21, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: NBC Bay Area, October 20, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The National Transportation Safety Board sent two people to Walnut Creek to take over the investigation of a double fatality on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tracks Saturday afternoon. A train struck...
