UPDATE 12/1/13 9:33 AM EST NBC Connecticut is reporting that four people are being reported dead, with at least 48 injured after an alleged driver error. The train was also said to be just about 100 yards from its next stop. — Tragedy has struck passengers on a Metro-North train passing through the Bronx as […]
If parents and old people telling you those beloved iPod ear buds will ruin your hearing isn’t enough, maybe this video will do it. A man in Australia was way into whatever he was listening to when he walked across the train tracks, oblivious to the 60 mph cylinder of gas and metal barreling towards him. […]
The driver of the train that killed 79 in Spain and left 15 in critical condition was talking on the phone and reading at the time of the crash, a court revealed. Francisco Jose Garzon de Amo, 52, was traveling at 95 mph, almost double the 50 mph speed limit on a curve heading into the city […]
The man who was driving the high-speed train that killed 79 people in Spain last week is now being charged with 79 counts of homicide and several offenses of bodily harm. Francisco Garzon (pictured above), 52, has been under arrest since Thursday. Garzon is suspected of driving the train too fast through a tight curve […]
UPDATE: 1:20 PM EST President Obama has released a statement regarding the deadly crash. —– The death toll from the deadly train derailment on Wednesday is now at 80, as officials call it the worst train crash in Spain’s history. More than 140 passengers were hurt during the crash and 36 passengers were seriously injured after […]
A train in north-western Spain came off the tracks and crashed, killing 35 and injuring more than 50. Local reports say the accident is the worst in Spain for four decades. According to BBC: All 13 carriages left the tracks, and four carriages overturned completely. The train carried more than 200 passengers, and was on […]
This month’s list of train derailments in the nation continues to grow, as news of a freight train accident in Baltimore County, Maryland is confirmed. The derailment caused a half-mile area to be evacuated and authorities are concerned that at least one person is trapped in the rubble. According to CNN: A truck was involved […]
Just days after the nightmarish bridge collapse over the Skagit River in Washington, an overpass in Rockview, Missouri crumbled after two trains collided. The horrifying collapse injured seven people, but fortunately, there were no fatalities. The incident occurred when a Union Pacific train carrying auto parts crashed into another freight train at an intersection. The […]
The dramatic moment after two trains collided into each other in Bridgeport, Conn. was caught on tape by a group of shocked skaters who were hanging near the scene of the accident. “Holy shit, the train just fucking crashed,” you can hear one of the skaters say over and over again. The boys hesitate before […]
Ugh! A real life train wreck… A Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn. leaving sixty people injured, five of them critically. Rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after the eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the […]
This absolutely has to be a parent’s worst nightmare. A woman waiting for a train at the 56th Street SEPTA station in West Philadelphia had the scare of her life when the stroller carrying her 14-month-old baby girl rolled down the platform and onto the train tracks. The woman, who hadn’t noticed the moving stroller, […]
A man, who has not been identified, was killed by an oncoming New York subway train yesterday morning as he tried to retrieve something off of the tracks. PHOTOS: Oh No! Another Person Gets Pushed On NYC Subway Tracks & Dies According to CBS News, the man was hit by a southbound D train at the […]
