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Rescuers evacuate an injured woman from the site of a train accident at a station near Penukonda, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Bangalore, India, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and burst into flames before dawn Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people in southern India, officials said. (AP Photo)

Indian passenger train rams freight train; 25 dead

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:14am

HYDERABAD, India -- A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.

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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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Rescue workers prepaire to remove a wagon from the crash site in Szczekociny, Poland, on Sunday. Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland late Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people dead and more than 50 injured in the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Polish train collision kills 16

Monika Scislowska, Vanessa Gera The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 10:39pm

SZCZEKOCINY, Poland -- Poland's government insisted Sunday that rail travel is safe in the country despite a train collision that killed 16 people, assurances that come months before masses of sports fans will enter the country for a major soccer tournament -- many of whom will crisscross the nation by train.

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Firemen rescue wounded passengers from a commuter train after a collision in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing dozens and injuring hundreds, according to police. (AP Photo/Leonardo Zavattaro,Telam)

Packed train slams into Argentine station, killing 49

Micahel Warren The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 11:29am

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

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Railroad fatalities on the increase

Paul Nussbaum The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:44pm

HAMILTON, N.J. -- N.J. Transit's modern train station in Hamilton, just north of Trenton, is a favorite with commuters, with lots of parking and easy access to I-295.

The station is also a favorite among death-seekers.

Five people in two years have been killed by trains there, all apparent suicides.

Amtrak trains, which don't stop at Hamilton, speed by the station at up to 135 m.p.h. on their way to and from New York City.

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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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Trains collide, derail in SLC railroad yard

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 10:49am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Officials say more than 1,000 gallons of fuel spilled when two trains sideswiped each other and derailed in a Salt Lake City train yard.

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Two Amtrak trains rest against each other after colliding at an Oakland, Calif., station on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. A fire official said one train was unloading passengers when the second train ran into it at an estimated speed of 15 to 20 miles per hour injuring about 16 people. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Amtrak trains collide; at least 18 injured

Rick Hurd The Oakland Tribune

Last updated Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:23pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- At least 18 people were injured in a low-speed collision between two Amtrak trains near the Oakland passenger station in Jack London Square late Thursday.

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Ethanol remaining in tanker cars burns off at the scene of a train derailment in Tiskilwa, Ill., Friday morning, Oct. 7, 2011. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed early Friday morning, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of the small town of Tiskilwa. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Kemp Smith-LaSalle)

Fiery train derailment in Ill. leads to evacuation

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 9:34am

TISKILWA, Ill. -- A freight train loaded with ethanol crashed and exploded Friday, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of a small town in northern Illinois.

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Amtrak train, farm truck collide

Rick Hurd Contra Costa Times

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 8:11am

BRENTWOOD, Calif. -- Dozens of people were injured Friday evening when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a farm truck at a rural crossing east of the city, an Amtrak spokeswoman said.

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Amtrak train hits car on West Wendover tracks

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 1:35pm

WEST WENDOVER, Nev. -- Police are investigating after an Amtrak train plowed into an empty vehicle that had stalled on a pair of West Wendover train tracks.

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Police: Sandy woman deliberately stepped in front of train

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Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:19am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Police are identifying a woman who died after stepping in front of a Utah Transit Authority train in Midvale.

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Utah victim's family sues in Nevada Amtrak crash

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Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 10:45am

RENO, Nev. -- The husband of a Utah woman killed after a truck slammed into an Amtrak train in Nevada is suing the truck driver's employer.

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(Courtesy of Roy Police Department) A freight train demolished the back end of a car abandoned on the tracks by Ronald J. Degroot on Thursday after a fight with his wife.

Train crushes car after man abandons it on tracks in Roy

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 11:25pm

ROY -- Ronald J. Degroot, 41, was arrested Thursday morning after a freight train destroyed his car -- which police say he abandoned on the tracks.

Degroot left his Roy home in his compact sedan after a fight with his wife. He eventually parked the car on the train tracks near the 4800 South and 1900 West intersection.

"He was there awhile, then changed his mind (about the car), but he was unable to move it," said Anna Bond, spokeswoman for the Roy Police Department. Police are not sure why he was unable to move the car, though he did abandon it after he realized he could not, Bond said.

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Freight train hits abandoned car in Roy

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 10:05am

ROY - A man is in custody after police say he got into an argument with his wife and abandoned her car on train tracks in Roy, sparking an early morning crash.

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