60 injured in US light-rail collision

October 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Eight people were killed and 12 others injured in a collision between a trekker vehicle and a lorry in West Bengal's Murshidabad district Monday. Police said the mishap occurred when the trekker driver lost control while trying to overtake the lorry in Baharampur.

September 24th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Several people were injured as two cargo trains collided and hit a passenger train near Rotterdam Thursday night, according to Dutch police. Police said "there were relatively few injured" after the two cargo trains collided at about 10.30 p.m.

September 24th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - One man died and several people were injured as two cargo trains collided and hit a passenger train Thursday night near Rotterdam, Dutch police said. The driver of one of the cargo trains died and, according to police, "relatively few others were injured" when two cargo trains collided around 10.30 p.m.

September 18th, 2009 Attock/Fateh Jhang (Punjab, Pakistan), - At least 17 people were killed while 55 others were wounded in a head-on collision between two passengers buses at the Pindi-Kohat road on Friday. According to the Dawn, a passenger van carrying pilgrims who had gone to Gangol Sharif Danga Kharian for prayers on the eve of the 27th of Ramazan collided with another passenger van coming from Kohat which was on its way to Rawalpindi.

August 23rd, 2009 ELLWANGEN - Four people died in a midair collision involving a helicopter and a light plane near the southern German town of Ellwangen Sunday, police said. The accident happened near an airfield where 1,000 visitors had gathered for a festival.

July 23rd, 2009 Feds say injuries have increased on SF trainsSAN FRANCISCO — The passenger injury rate on light-rail trains in San Francisco has steadily increased since 2003 — a trend that seems likely to continue after a weekend crash that injured 48 people. Accidents involving San Francisco Municipal Railway trains injured 21 passengers in 2003.

July 22nd, 2009 NTSB: Human error eyed as cause of SF train crashSAN FRANCISCO — Federal investigators say they are focusing on human error as the cause of a light-rail train crash in San Francisco that injured dozens of people after finding no indication of mechanical or systems failures. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday the operator of the San Francisco Municipal Railway train in Saturday's collision told investigators he blacked out before the crash.

July 20th, 2009 Rail operator's actions questioned in Calif. crashSAN FRANCISCO — Federal investigators are trying to find out why the operator of a San Francisco light-rail that crashed into a parked train and injured dozens of passengers had turned off the automatic controls moments before the collision.

July 20th, 2009 NTSB: Train driver switched to manual before crashSAN FRANCISCO — A federal investigator says the operator of a light-rail train that crashed in San Francisco, injuring dozens of passengers, switched his controls from automatic to manual before he should have. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin said Sunday that the operator switched to manual in a tunnel near West Portal Station, instead of inside the station.

July 20th, 2009 SF train operator's actions come under scrutinySAN FRANCISCO — The operator of a light-rail train that crashed and injured dozens of passengers in San Francisco came under scrutiny Sunday as federal investigators tried to figure out why he inexplicably turned off the automatic controls moments before the collision. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin did not know why the operator switched the controls from automatic to manual in a tunnel near the West Portal Station.

July 19th, 2009 NTSB investigators to probe SF light rail crashSAN FRANCISCO — Two investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were helping San Francisco officials on Sunday determine the cause of a collision between two light-rail trains that left dozens of people injured. The Los Angeles-based investigators will work with transit officials to interview the train drivers, passengers and witnesses, said NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson.

July 19th, 2009 Several injured in San Francisco light-rail crashSAN FRANCISCO — Several people are injured after two light-rail trains collided in San Francisco. Judson True, a spokesman for the city's Muni service, says the crash occurred just before 3 p.m.

July 4th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Barely 12 hours after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee stressed safety measures in her rail budget, a passenger train collided with a static goods train in Ghaziabad late Friday. Twelve people were injured in the accident, officials said Saturday.

June 23rd, 2009 One dead, others hurt in DC rail transit collisionWASHINGTON — At least one person was killed Monday in a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington. A number of other passengers were severely injured, said District of Columbia fire spokesman Alan Etter, in what he describes as a "mass casualty event." He said crews were cutting apart the trains to get people out.

June 23rd, 2009 Over 60 people injured in collisionWASHINGTON — Over 60 passengers have been injured in the crash of two Metro trains. District of Columbia Fire Chief Dennis Rubin says that about 50 of the passengers fell into the quote — walking wounded — category of injuries.