El Faro ‘Black Box’ Recovered August 12, 2016 By JASON DEAREN Search crews have retrieved the “black box” from the wreckage of the freighter El Faro that sank in 15,000-feet of...
No Survivors in Texas Hot Air Balloon Crash August 1, 2016 By JIM VERTUNO A hot air balloon carrying 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas, and it appeared no one...
NTSB: Train Didn’t Heed Stop Signal in Deadly Texas Wreck July 18, 2016 By DAVID WARREN A train failed to heed a stop signal before it barreled head-on into another freight train last month in the...
Houston Ship Channel Pilot Blamed in 2015 Collision June 13, 2016 Federal safety experts say errors by a Houston Ship Channel pilot likely caused the 2015 collision between two 600-foot vessels...
Panel Creates Voluntary Privacy Guidelines for Drone Operators May 25, 2016 By DAVID KOENIG A panel of privacy experts and technology companies organized by the Obama administration has issued guidelines for using drones without...
Pedestrian Safety Focus of Multi-Agency Forum May 24, 2016 By Denise Johnson Pedestrian fatalities increased six percent in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, according...
Amtrak Engineer Distracted Before Deadly Philadelphia Derailment May 19, 2016 By MICHAEL BALSAMO An Amtrak engineer whose speeding train jumped the tracks along a curve in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was...
Texas Bus Company in Rollover Crash Ordered to Sideline Buses in Past May 18, 2016 The small South Texas bus company involved in a rollover crash that killed eight people and injured 44 others had...
Federal Report Finds That DC Subway Safety Hasn’t Improved May 6, 2016 By BEN NUCKOLS Washington’s subway system did not make meaningful safety improvements between a deadly collision in 2009 and a fatal fire in...
Insurers, States Work to Combat Distracted Driving April 20, 2016 By Denise Johnson Drivers are faced with a number of distractions today. Consider that more than 587,000 people driving at any given time...