A railroad crossing sign and the blasting horn of an approaching train weren’t enough to stop a motorist who narrowly escaped getting hit on East Market Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one recent morning. Video of the incident shows the …
Acute fatigue and lack of familiarity with the area likely caused the driver of a work truck to turn onto train tracks where the vehicle and its trailer were struck by a Southern California commuter train, killing the engineer and …
An engineer is operating trains along the nation’s third-largest commuter railroad even though his driver’s license has been suspended for 10 years because of a history of driving while intoxicated. New Jersey Transit engineer Thomas Broschart’s license was suspended in …
Google will add audio and visual alerts to warn drivers about upcoming railroad crossings on Google’s navigation system, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration announced on Monday. The agency also asked four other companies – Apple, Garmin, Tom Tom and AOL’s …
A series of crashes involving trains and passenger vehicles – including deadly collisions in New York and California last month – have prompted police to ramp up ticket enforcement at railroad crossings. The Federal Railroad Administration has called for police …
Federal experts will spend the next two months examining safety compliance and safety culture at a commuter railroad that operated a train that derailed and killed four people this month. The effort will assess a broad range of practices at …