ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Train derails in France and injures 44 as authorities investigate possible sabotage
French authorities are investigating whether sabotage caused a train derailment in Normandy that injured 44 people
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Passenger train plows into truck at Polish crossing after driver allegedly ignores signals
A Polish intercity train carrying roughly 300 passengers slammed into a truck stuck on a level crossing near Gdansk after the driver allegedly ignored warning signals, a collision captured on CCTV that railway officials released as a blunt safety warning. The crash unfolded around 12:30 p.m. on September 3 at a crossing near Gdansk Lipce […] The post Passenger train plows into truck at Polish crossing after driver allegedly ignores signals appeared first on American Almanac .
A Polish intercity train carrying roughly 300 passengers slammed into a truck stuck on a level crossing near Gdansk after the driver allegedly ignored warning signals, a collision captured on CCTV that railway officials released as a blunt safety warning. The crash unfolded around 12:30 p.m. on September 3 at a crossing near Gdansk Lipce station, where a PKP Intercity passenger train traveling from Gdynia to Zielona Góra struck an orange heavy-goods vehicle that had become wedged between the crossing barriers. Footage shows the truck driver attempting to move forward and backward to clear the tracks. He failed. The train hit at full approach speed, obliterating the truck's cargo section, scattering debris across the rail line, and…Open
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Train smashes into truck caught between crossing barriers
CCTV footage released by Polish Railway Lines shows the terrifying moment a passenger train collided with a truck caught between crossing barriers. The truck driver and all passengers were unharmed, but the train driver had to be taken to the hospital.
JUSTTHENEWS (John Solomon) - One killed, 89 injured when two trains collide in Britain
The crash in Bedford, England, drew a massive emergency response and a cause was not immediately released.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Anna Kutz) - Ohio activist warning other cities about rail safety
Three years after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in her town, Jess Conard is leading a rail safety initiative.