A New York City commuter train derailed Sunday, killing four and injuring more than sixty others. According to authorities, the train was rounding a riverside curve when it derailed and sent a chain of toppled cars falling away from the track, just inches from the water. There were between one-hundred…
More than a dozen students and two drivers were injured last Thursday afternoon in the Texas Panhandle area when a school bus and car collided. According to Amarillo police, investigations into the cause of the accident continued into Friday; however, no details on what exactly took place were immediately released.…
According to authorities and passengers aboard the Amtrak Crescent bound for New York City, several cars fell off the tracks early Monday morning, throwing baggage about the cars and forcing passengers to cling to each other for safety. It was shortly after midnight in Spartanburg County, South Carolina on a…
The Coast Guard continued searching Wednesday for two individuals who were aboard a jet that went down in the Atlantic Ocean just off Florida’s coast Tuesday night. Rescuers also worked to haul in parts of the plane and asked boaters to stay out of the area due to safety concerns.…
Forty-five years after the National Transportation Board called for seat belt reform on commercial buses, safety advocates are still waiting for the government to put some sort of plan into action. One of the first times the NTSB spoke out publicly about the lack of seat belts on buses was…
A twenty-six-year-old Indianapolis man was arrested last Sunday after he allegedly caused an accident with a church van, killing its driver and injuring a number of passengers. Police stated last Monday that Brandon D. Collins was in custody in the Marion County Jail on preliminary charges of failing to stop…
Federal accident investigators urged the government Thursday to look into the federal agency tasked with ensuring safety of commercial vehicles, as those investigators found that a look into four tour bus and truck crashes raised serious concerns about the agency’s performance. Documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed…
Early last Wednesday morning a twenty-six-year-old bassist in a local Indie rock band was killed in a horrific wrong-way crash on Interstate 95. Everything seemed to have been going good for the band Ghost Cat. The group, comprised of four men, had recently returned to Florida from a recording session…
A chain-reaction crash caused by a dust storm on an Arizona highway took the lives of three people on Tuesday. The area where the crash occurred often sees gusting winds stirring up clouds of dirt that have the potential to reduce visibility to zero. Nineteen vehicles were involved in the…
A young child remained in critical condition in a Broward County hospital on Saturday after he was struck by a dirt bike in Fort Lauderdale. The child’s name and age have not yet been released. According to police, the accident that caused the child’s injuries occurred just before 6:40 p.m.…