Amtrak Pays Millions for Others' Fatal Errors
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In accident after accident, freight railroads have used Amtrak to shield themselves from tens of millions of dollars in liability.
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An &#36;80 million settlement was reached Thursday in a lawsuit against a crematory operator by nearly 1,700 relatives of deceased people whose bodies were found strewn across the business' grounds.
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Eight days after the fatal crash of a futuristic train in northwest Germany, local authorities have been found to have been negligent in applying safety regulations.
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London - Several people have died and many more are injured after a high-speed train hit a car on a level crossing and derailed, Sky News reports.
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A defective track caused a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and seriously injured five other people, according to the boss of the train company involved.
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At least 10 people were killed and  nearly 200 injured on Wednesday when two Los Angeles commuter  trains collided after one struck an automobile left on the  tracks in what authorities called an aborted suicide attempt by  a "deranged" man.
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BOLOGNINA DI CREVALCORE, Italy  - Rescue workers pried apart the mangled remains of two trains that collided head-on in northern Italy on Saturday, finding four more bodies one day after the crash, firefighters said, raising the death toll to 17.
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Network Rail and rail services firm Amey are fined Â£500,000 for the partial derailment of a high-speed train.
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A train company doubles the compensation it will pay season ticket holders after it failed to meet its targets.
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Two women died and around 30 were injured when a passenger train derailed in northern Italy.
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Police investigating the cause of a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and injured five other people, said on Saturday a set of points could be to blame.
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Airlines would have to triple compensation for passengers involuntarily bumped from flights under one proposal being considered by U.S. transportation officials.
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Two CSX freight trains collided head-on Monday, killing one crew member, authorities said.
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An accident in Tennessee four years ago that killed three children and injured three others prompted the federal government to urge states to give high priority to improving safety at railroad crossings used by school buses. But only a dozen states followed through.
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Six people were killed and over 100 others were injured - 11 of them seriously - when a train hit a car on a level crossing in Berkshire in England yesterday evening.
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Twenty people are now known to have been killed when a freight train derailed in south-east Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese Red Cross has said.
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MINNEAPOLIS - An 87-year-old man was killed Saturday when his car was hit by a light rail train in south Minneapolis, the first fatal accident on the rail system since it began operation three months ago.