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Parade float honoring wounded vets hit by train, 4 killed

Juan Carlos Llorca, Terry Wallace The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 16, 2012 - 8:04am

MIDLAND, Texas — A float decorated with American flags and carrying wounded veterans and their spouses to a banquet in West Texas took the full force of a train at a railroad crossing, killing at least four people and injuring 17.

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TRAX train derails after crash with car

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 6:13pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Nobody was seriously injured when a car ran a red light in downtown Salt Lake City and crashed into a TRAX train.

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A rail car burns after a truck slammed into an Amtrak passenger train in northern Nevada in June, killing five and injuring 20.

More lawsutis in deadly Nev. Amtrak-truck crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 11:31am

RENO, Nev. -- Lawsuits continue to pile up against the Battle Mountain company that owns the truck that slammed into an Amtrak passenger train in northern Nevada in June, killing five and injuring 20.

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UTA to address train safety

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 11:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Transit Authority will address recent safety incidents and announce new initiatives to increase safety awareness, two days after a woman in a mini-van was hit by a FrontRunner train at a rail-crossing in Kaysville.

UTA spokesman Gerry Carpenter said with recent UTA expansions, more motorists and pedestrians are interacting with trains than ever before.

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