Category: Train Accidents

On Thursday, December 11, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) experienced a massive subway meltdown stranding thousands of commuters and even endangering some of them. One crowded train opened its doors on the wrong side of the tracks. Other passengers were forced to evacuate trains across the system, reported NBC News (12.12.14). A manhole fire near the West 4th […]

Forty-four people were injured after a passenger train and a freight train collided in the Ozarks about 130 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas. The people on the passenger train were on a scenic fall foliage excursion at the time of the accident, reported CNN News (10.16.14). The trains collided when excess leaves on the […]