Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government would be helping the victims of a fatal train wreck that killed 13 people and injured 98 others. To support them, her government would provide each victim with 30,000 pesos (approximately $1,600) to cover expenses. Once the investigations are complete, the government will issue a second stipend.
Mexico’s government is working to contain the political fallout stemming from a large-scale train wreck that killed 13 passengers and injured almost 100 others in the southern part of the country. The wrecked train was one of the pet projects pushed by the country’s ruling party and was operated by Mexico’s Navy to improve tourism and quality of life in the southern part of the country. However, the train project has been plagued with allegations of corruption, contract rigging, and the use of substandard materials.
A regional passenger train derailed Sunday in southern Germany injuring at least three people, federal police told German news agency dpa.
Crowds of hundreds of thousands of people convened in nearly every major city in Greece on Friday to mark the two-year anniversary of the worst train disaster in the modern history of the country – and demand safety reforms to ensure it does not happen again.
A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said.
PARIS (AP) – Two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France on Saturday, causing dozens of injuries, though none critical, authorities said. The accident took place during the afternoon in a tunnel leading to the station near the city’s central train station.
At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said.
A freight train crashed into an 18-wheeler hauling a military artillery vehicle that became stuck on the tracks in South Carolina, video shows.
A head-on train collision in Boulder, Colorado, injured both conductors, triggered power outages, and caused concerns of a fuel leak.
A freight train hit and killed three people at a railway crossing at a station in central Sweden after they got off another train, police said Thursday.
Storm Gerrit battered the UK, destroying homes and a passenger train, and leaving thousands without electricity across Scotland and England.
14 spies including alleged ‘Ukrainian refugees’ have been sentenced in Poland over a plot to sabotage a train carrying weapons to Ukraine.
Chinese delegates to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Shanghai this weekend scoffed at the notion India’s military could challenge the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, while Chinese state media portrayed a deadly Indian train crash as evidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is incompetent and untrustworthy.
Russia is attempting to claim a victory over Ukraine after it was embarrassed by a series of explosions destroying supply trains.
Russia sees “uptick in rail accidents” and country will struggle to protect the tracks it relies on to move military supplies, says UK.
A Russian freight train hauling fuel was derailed and partially consumed in fire on Monday morning, with an “explosive device” blamed.
A passenger train slammed into a construction crane and derailed near The Hague in the early hours of Tuesday.
Striking labor unions disrupted mass transit in Greece on Wednesday to protest the deaths of 57 people in the country’s worst train disaster.
Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned, saying it was his “duty” to step down “as a basic indication of respect” for those who died.
A train in Greece carrying hundreds of people, including many university students, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train, killing 36.
One boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany, police said Friday.
Two trains collided near Barcelona early Wednesday, injuring 155 people but none seriously, Spanish officials said.
Frightening body camera footage caught the moment a police vehicle parked on rail tracks with a woman detained inside was hit by a freight train.
Officials said Monday 22 people were hospitalized after a regional passenger train and a locomotive collided head-on in northeastern Spain.
A train accident in the Alps in southern Germany on Friday left at least four people dead and many more injured, authorities said.
Authorities in Germany said they are investigating whether one of the drivers involved in a fatal collision this week ran a stop signal.
A train carrying dozens of schoolchildren derailed Friday in the Austrian Alps, and a carriage ended up on its side in a river.
An Amtrak passenger train crashed into an 18-wheeler sitting at a railroad crossing in Cibolo, Texas, on Tuesday morning.
Stephen King has apologized for claiming this week’s fatal train crash, which carried Republican congressmen, was ‘karma.’
Stephen King claimed this week’s fatal train crash, which was carrying Republican congressmen and killed one person, was ‘karma’ in a post on Twitter.
Two passenger trains collided on Friday just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, according to authorities, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade.
MADRID (AP) — Emergency services say 40 people received medical treatment after a morning commuter train they were traveling on crashed into the buffers in a station in northeastern Barcelona early Friday
GENEVA (AP) — An Italian train derailed in the central Swiss city of Lucerne on Wednesday and one carriage tipped over, injuring seven people on board.
A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey, causing serious damage.
A female driver made a harrowing escape from an oncoming train Tuesday night when she abandoned her Prius on railroad tracks, leaving her car to be totaled by a locomotive heading to Sacramento.
A subway train bumped into another one ahead of it at a station in southern Rome on Friday, throwing passengers to the floor and injuring a dozen people. Passengers emerging from the station reported feeling the impact, seeing sparks and
As the nation comes to grips with Tuesday evening’s Amtrak accident that took the lives of seven passengers, government sources reveal that rail accidents and derailments have increased over the last few years, with Amtrak’s rates higher than the rest.
A car moving in the same direction as a Metro Expo Line train cut in front of it to make a turn, causing a horrifying crash, leaving 21 people injured and the driver of the car fighting for his life.
Fitness expert and television actor Greg Plitt, who was struck and killed by a train in Burbank on Saturday, was reportedly trying to outrun a train while filming a commercial for an energy drink when the train hit him.
