The draft report presented to the five NTSB members will include the following issue areas: survival factors, driver background and human factors, highway design, vehicle factors, motor carrier oversight, and the company operating and safety history.
Read More →Canada's TSB said there are no safety defenses to prevent trains from changing tracks at a high rate of speed and that the country is falling behind others around the world, including the U.S., in stepping up safety.
Read More →A collision that killed 16 people and injured more than 50 others has drawn attention to the country’s neglected rail system. The accident happened just as officials are preparing the system to accommodate the Euro 2012 soccer championship.
Read More →Prosecutors say the school was getting commercial driver's licenses for people without the necessary skills.
Read More →The coach was headed for a local casino. Preliminary indications were that adverse weather could have been a factor
Read More →The 22-year-old man was being charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and failing to yield to a pedestrian in the March 22 accident in Westminster, Mass.
Read More →The same law firm led a class-action lawsuit against Via Rail and CN after a derailment in 1999 that killed two crew members and sent 77 passengers and crew to the hospital.
Read More →Awarded a contract to Ansaldo STS USA Inc. Agency officials said that the cost would mean canceling or delaying many other transit projects in the Philadelphia region.
Read More →Would have faced up to four years in state prison on each of four counts of criminally negligent homicide.
Read More →The Transportation Safety Board of Canada sent a team of investigators to the site of the incident. The cause of the derailment is not yet known.
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