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Photos from the Amtrak crash in South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2018.
Feb. 4, 2018
California
Five people were sent to the hospital after an Amtrak train crashed into a semi in the area of Somis in Ventura County on Tuesday night.
Dec. 12, 2023
Amtrak and BNSF Railway claim a Missouri company that owned and operated the dump truck involved in the crash was negligent.
June 30, 2022
Fifty-five people were taken to hospitals Monday after an Amtrak train hit a tractor-trailer that had stopped on the tracks in North Carolina, causing a locomotive and a baggage car to derail, officials said.
March 9, 2015
The National Transportation Safety Board has asked the FBI to examine window damage to determine whether an Amtrak train was hit by an object before it derailed in Philadelphia, the latest step after investigators on Friday questioned the engineer, who said he could not recall details of the crash.
May 15, 2015
At least 69 people have died since 2004 in train crashes that could have been prevented if technology that overrides human error had been installed, federal investigators said Tuesday at a congressional hearing into last month’s deadly Amtrak derailment.
June 2, 2015
Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a rail switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina.
Feb. 5, 2018
The engineer at the throttle of an Amtrak train that flew off a curve and crashed in Washington state last month, killing three and injuring dozens, has told federal investigators he missed — or misinterpreted — a sign that might have alerted him to the passenger train’s dangerous speed, nearly 50 mph over the safe limit.
Jan. 25, 2018
In the Missouri Amtrak crash, which left four dead and 150 injured, investigators focus on the railway crossing.
June 29, 2022
Seven passengers were injured Friday after an Amtrak bus rolled into a ditch off the 101 Freeway south of Los Alamos and flipped on its side, authorities said.
Jan. 18, 2019