AnAmtrak train traveling from Washington D.C. to New York derailed on Tuesday at approximately 9 p.m. The Northeast Regional Train 188 was transporting 238 passengers and five crew members when the accident occurred on one of the busiest railroad corridors in the United States. The train included seven cars, all of which were derailed…
Avid animal rescuer, 58-year-old-Sandie Konopelski was killed Friday morning after a MetroLink train struck her. At first police were baffled by how Konopelski ended up on the tracks, and why she did not hear the warning that a train was headed her way. No signs pointed to foul play or suicide, and everyone was…
Sadly, a person was struck and killed Friday morning by a MetroLink train in Belleville, Illinois. The unidentified person was hit and killed near the Swansea station and Scheel Street. The female pedestrian was walking on the tracks for unknown reasons when the westbound train hit her. The victim’s car was found near the…
A commuter train struck and killed a man Wednesday in Wheaton, Illinois. Authorities responded to the accident around 7 p.m. near Manchester Road and Birch Drive. The DuPage County Coroner pronounced the 37-year-old victim dead at the scene of the accident. The Metra Train was traveling west of downtown Wheaton on Union Pacific tracks….
Sadly on Thursday another life was lost due to a fatal train accident. This time, a man tried to outrun a train, and unfortunately lost. The victim was 38-year-old, Jonathan Schrage, and was killed when a train struck his truck near Route 143 in Madison, Illinois. Although the warning lights were flashing, and the…
A Metra train in Chicago struck and killed an individual Saturday night. The train accident happened around 9:30 p.m. in the Chicago suburb of Palatine. The Union Pacific Northwest line had departed at approximately 8:30 from downtown Chicago and was traveling to the northwest suburbs. The train was the 725 and was delayed for…
A father and three children were traveling on Reese Mountain Road in Montgomery County, Virginia when a train struck their car. The accident happened around 6 p.m. Wednesday night when the car attempted to cross the train tracks. The three children, between the ages of four and eight, were all transported by separate helicopters…
Whether or not the person killed in theaccident was trying to outrun it, or had another reason in mind all together, it’s never a good idea to challenge a train. Likewise, one man is dead after for unknown reasons he disobeyed crossing signals warning that a train was approaching. In addition, 80-year-old, Henry Bloodworth…
An Amtrak passenger train hit a semi truck Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina. In addition, after the Philadelphia-bound train struck the semi, it derailed off the tracks with people on board. The accident happened when the semi became stuck on the tracks after it attempted to make a right hand turn. Likewise, prior to…
Last week in Oxnard, California a commuter train and pickup crashed, leaving one dead. Likewise, the accident happened on February 24th when the train hit a southbound truck, which got stuck on the rails; the truck mistook the rails for a road. The impact of the accident derailed the train, and the truck burst…