Train Disaster News

Thirteen people were injured, two seriously, when a train derailed near the southwestern French city of Limoges.

Rome - The death toll from this week's rail disaster in northern Italy climbed to 18 after a victim who suffered serious burn injuries died in hospital, officials said on Thursday.

The gates to Michael Jackson's fabled Neverland Ranch swung open Thursday to reveal a shell of the fantasyland the boy-man had created in his heyday.

Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 20 after a woman died overnight in the hospital.

A 30-year-old Ozark man was killed when a coal train hit a van he was driving near Springfield, Missouri.

Metro officials say red line trains in greater Washington, D.C., will return to regular speeds this holiday weekend for the first time since a deadly crash.

The findings raise new questions about whether Metro officials should have discovered the hazard before one train rammed into another June 22, killing nine and injuring 80.

Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured.

A gas-filled rail tanker derailed ploughing into homes killing at least 16 people in an Italian seaside resort town.

Johnnie Cochran 's awesome law outfit The Cochran Firm have announced that they're going to be playing a huge part in the post metro-crash litigation.

Recipients of Carnegie Hero medals, which were awarded Thursday: _Terry Ray Odom, 49, of Naples, Fla., and _Richard S. Cameron, 36, of Naples, Fla., saved Ray J. Davis, 55, from drowning when his sport utility vehicle crashed into a golf course lake in East Naples, Fla.

A train derailed and set off an explosion and fire in the middle of a small Italian town on Monday night, killing at least 12 people, many as they slept in their homes, and injuring at least 50, officials said.

Axle failure on a wagon carrying liquid gas caused this week's rail disaster in northern Italy, the country's transport minister told parliament Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to 16.

News reports say two children have died after suffering severe burns in an explosion that followed a train derailment in northern Italy, raising the death toll to 16.

Two children have died after suffering severe burns in an explosion that followed a train derailment in northern Italy, bringing the death toll to 16, officials said Wednesday.

A BOY of seven and his grandmother were killed on a poorly-lit level crossing where it was "impossible" to tell when a 62mph train was coming, an inquest was told today.

A Metra train struck two pedestrians on Chicago South Side late Tuesday afternoon at 75th and Exchange.

Metro says trains around the nation's capital might continue operating manually for a year or more while the agency makes sure its automatic control system works properly following a deadly crash.

A train derailed and set off an explosion and fire in the middle of a small Italian town on Monday night, killing at least 12 people, many as they sle ...

An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea as it approached the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros in bad weather early today, officials said.