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A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record. The latest deadly incident occurred Sunday in South Carolina.
“We have to continue to improve and evolve the safety culture at Amtrak.” Even without accidents, Amtrak's reputation suffered routine complaints about unreliable trains or late servic ...
An Amtrak train and a truck were involved in an accident in Lemont, Illinois on Thursday. Lemont police were called for a ...
There were 1,880 incidents at rail crossings in the ... it is a reflection of a lax safety culture at Amtrak, they said. Railroad repairs were ongoing in the days leading up to the fatal accident.
(Reuters) - The deadly derailment of an Amtrak train south of Seattle ... following a series of fatal incidents. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said late on Monday the ...
The latest Amtrak crash near Mendon ... Despite the frequency of fatal grade-crossing incidents, the major rail safety push over the past decade has been to prevent train-on-train collisions ...
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are trying ... Investigators probe deadly Amtrak derailment in Montana Other recent Amtrak accidents: Dec. 18, 2017: Three people were killed ...
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating three of the collisions, including Sunday’s. Here is what we know about the fatal incidents: Two Amtrak employees were killed when the ...
Amtrak is moving full speed ahead with tunnel closures in the city on Friday — despite pleas from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor ...
Amtrak pays for accidents it didn’t cause because of ... don’t have an iron in the fire when it comes to making the safety improvements necessary to protect members of the public,” said ...
An Amtrak train traveling from New York City to ... traveled Northeast Corridor and marks the latest in a string of accidents for the national passenger railroad. The collision early Sunday ...
“We have to continue to improve and evolve the safety culture at Amtrak.” Even without accidents, Amtrak's reputation suffered routine complaints about unreliable trains or late servic ...