Tag: train derailment

Freight Train Derails in Regional Victoria

Dozens of shipping containers have been strewn across tracks from a derailed freight train in Victoria’s west, closing the rail corridor to Adelaide. The train derailed near Inverleigh along the Hamilton Highway outside Geelong at about 5.30 a.m. on Monday. In a statement, the Australian Rail Track Corporation said there were no injuries to the train…


46 Found Dead in Abandoned Truck Trailer in Texas; Amtrak Train Derailment Kills 3 and Injures 50 | NTD Daybreak

46 suspected illegal immigrants were found dead in a truck trailer abandoned in Texas. 16 survivors—hot to the touch—were brought to the hospital suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion. Three people are dead and at least 50 were injured in an Amtrak train derailment in Missouri on Monday. Federal Railroad Administration staff are en route…


Defendants Deny Claims of Wrongdoing in Fatal Train Derailment Lawsuits

Defendants in lawsuits filed by families who lost loved ones in a British Columbia train derailment are denying any wrongdoing in the deaths of three Canadian Pacific Railway employees. The derailment happened in February 2019, when 99 grain cars and two locomotives plummeted off a bridge near Field, B.C. Families of two of the men killed…


Train Derails in India’s West Bengal State; at Least 5 Dead

NEW DELHI—At least five people died and more than 45 were injured when a train derailed on Thursday in India’s West Bengal state, officials said. Twelve coaches of the train went off the rails and three capsized. Video’s from the scene, posted on social media, showed passengers stuck in twisted metal and debris as rescuers rushed…


Train Derails in Australia After Collison, Four Injured

Four people have been injured after an early morning commuter passenger train derailed after crashing into an abandoned car on the tracks on the NSW South Coast line. The crash happened on the same day the NSW rail network is already crippled by a strike affecting up to 70 percent of the city’s trains. Police…


Train in Iowa Hauling Hazardous Materials Derails, Catches Fire

A Union Pacific train hauling hazardous materials derailed and then caught fire in the city of Sibley, Iowa, leading to the evacuation of dozens of people.