Train Accidents
Over 40 firefighters and 15 ambulances responded to a train accident in Sacramento during the evening of August 22nd. A collision between a passenger train and a maintenance train left at least 27 people injured. The wreck happened west of the Winter Street light rail station, near Roseville Road and Marconi Ave. Though the majority of […]
A commuter train derailed in Northern California on Monday, leading to nine injuries when one of the cars tumbled into a creek. Authorities believe that the derailment was caused by mudslides after heavy rains. The mudslide swept a tree onto the tracks, causing a car on the Altamont Corridor Express train to derail, according to […]
In the past few months, the United States railroad system has experienced an unprecedented number of deadly and devastating train accidents; from the fatal Metro-North Railroad accident in New York that claimed the lives of six individuals to the most recent Metro-Link collision in Oxnard that left an engineer dead and 29 others injured; or […]