A 58 year old woman was seriously injured on Dec. 9 at 8 am when her Pontiac SUV was struck by a commuter train heading towards Boston, Massachusetts. The serious railroad crossing crash happened in Belmont, MA. The Massachusetts State Police stated that there were three children in the SUV as well. The six year old was still in the […]
58 Year Old Woman Seriously Hurt in RR Crossing Crash
Woman Severely Injured in Railroad Crossing Accident
A woman in Greenbrier, Tennessee was airlifted to a local hospital on November 2 when her car was hit by a train at a local railroad crossing. The accident happened at 5 am on November 2 in Greenbriar at the Wilson St. crossing. According to the local chief of police, the woman was in critical condition with serious railroad crossing […]
Railroad Crossings Caused 90 Accidents in Alabama in 2015
When a 30 car train hits a car, the vehicles hit each other with the same amount of force as a car smashing an aluminum can. It is that type of force that leads to more than 2000 accidents with many injuries and deaths at railroad crossings around the country each year. Ninety of those were in Alabama in 2015, […]
Hoboken NJ Train Engineer Had Undiagnosed Sleep Disorder
The engineer running a New Jersey Transit train that slammed into Hoboken Terminal in September had a undiagnosed sleep disorder, according to his attorney this week. The engineer, Thomas Gallagher, recently discovered that he had severe sleep apnea. The test results that confirmed the disorder were sent to federal authorities on Oct. 31. Gallagher stated that he did not remember […]
New Jersey Transit Approves Funds for Postive Train Control
In the wake of a deadly commuter train crash in a busy Hoboken, New Jersey train station, New Jersey Transit has approved a budget that includes funding for large parts of positive train control (PTC) system, which would include an automatic braking system that could automatically stop a train in an emergency situation. New Jersey Transit approved an agreement for […]
NTSB Finds That Hoboken Train Speed Tripled Before Wreck
A deadly train crash in New Jersey on Sept. 29 that killed one and injured more than 100 underwent a rapid acceleration just before impact as it entered a busy commuter station in Hoboken NJ, according to the NTSB. The NTSP stated that the train was rolling into the station at a normal eight MPH, but for some reason, about […]
New York Work Train Sideswipes Passenger Train, Injuring 29
A long Island Railroad work train sideswiped a New York passenger train on the evening of Oct. 8, injuring 30. While there were no life threatening injuries reported, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano did stated that some of the injuries included broken bones and concussions. The passenger train involved in the railroad crash was the train that leaves at 8:22 […]
NJ Train Engineer Has No Memory of the Crash That Killed 1
The engineer who was running the train in Hoboken NJ that smashed into a busy commuter rail terminal, which killed a woman and injured more than 100, told federal investigators this week that he was only going 10 MPH as he approached the station, but has no memory of the crash. The statement from the train engineer, Thomas Gallagher, came […]
US Railroad Workers Testing Positive for Drugs Skyrockets
In early 2016, a railroad worker who had just been briefed on an upcoming assignment was found dead in a restroom, having overdosed on illegal prescription drugs. In the following months, tests that were done after three railroad accidents found that six employees on the trains tested positive for drugs. In a report done by the Washington Post, testing in […]
Flashing Lights Never Installed At PA at Deadly RR Crossing
A Halifax PA railroad crossing where a woman was killed in a train accident on Labor Day is only marked by faded crossbuck signs. The community is asking if there should have been flashing lights and additional warnings installed at the deadly railroad crossing. The woman, Trisha Hoffman, 29, died instantly on Sept. 5 when her car was hit near […]