Train and Truck Crash in Missouri City, Texas
A tractor trailer and train crashed into each other on September 21st in Missouri City, Texas, causing the train, operated by Amtrak, to derail with 71 passengers on board. The Houston Chronicle reports that the More...
Risky Business: Driving on Little Sleep Is as Dangerous as Drunk Driving
photo/ sandid via pixabay Scientists have known for years that sleep deprivation progressively affects the same areas of the brain that drinking alcohol does. A recent study found that if you get less than the recommended More...
Trucking Accidents and the Need for Evidence Preservation
The United States Department of Transportation puts at 500,000 the number of truck accidents reported every year. If you add the accidents that are never reported, this figure can be much higher. These accidents More...
Freight train hits garbage truck, derails and then explodes
Officials are explaining that a chemical train hit a garbage truck in Rosedale, Maryland. The blast damaged some industrial buildings, and a 20-block area was evacuated yet only four people were hurt. The train More...
Kendrick Johnson, Jerry Jones, two Florida men, two separate train accidents and two struggles to survive
St. Johns County authorities are trying to determine the details of how an 18-year-old teen was struck by a train Friday afternoon and a Tallahassee man is in critical condition when a train collided with his truck More...
Tractor trailer crashes into train killing six in Nevada
Six people were killed when a tractor-trailer truck slammed into a Chicago-to-California Amtrak passenger train at a railroad crossing east of Reno, Nevada, authorities said late Saturday. The death toll was released More...