Train kills West Virginia man after his motorized scooter gets stuck in tracks

October 8th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Train services in the flood-hit areas of Andhra Pradesh will be restored from Oct 15, union Minister of State for Railways H.K. Muniyappa said Thursday.

October 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Suspected Maoist guerrillas triggered a landmine blast on the railway tracks in Purulia district of West Bengal early Saturday, police said. The explosive went off on the railway tracks near Urma station after midnight, affecting train movement in the Adra-Chandil division.

September 4th, 2009 Ala. man dies when hit by train for second timeHUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A homeless man who survived being struck by a train two years ago has died after being hit by another train as he sat on the tracks.

July 28th, 2009 Car falls onto NY tracks, misses landing on trainNEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — A woman escaped serious injury when her car plunged about 20 feet onto train tracks in a suburb of New York City.

July 21st, 2009 Train topples building at W.VA. coal plant; 4 hurtWHARNCLIFFE, W.Va.

July 19th, 2009 LUDHIANA - Three teen-aged friends in this Punjab town attempted Aamir Khan's "Ghulam" stunt of out-racing an incoming train to reach a spot in their real life. But they failed and lost the bet, and lost their lives too.

July 9th, 2009 Police: 5 die when train hits vehicle in MichiganCANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Police say an Amtrak train crashed into a vehicle near Detroit, killing all five people in the car.

July 1st, 2009 Coal train derails near Atlanta, no one hurtUNION CITY, Ga. — Seventeen cars from a coal train have derailed and tipped over in Georgia.

June 30th, 2009 Freight train derails, kills 6 in ItalyROME — Two cars filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town, setting off an inferno that killed at least six people and injured 50 others, officials said Tuesday. The train cars plowed into several homes just outside the rail station in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio, and the resulting explosion collapsed a building and set fire to a vast area.

June 30th, 2009 Woman on tracks to 'clear her mind' hit by trainBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham police said a 22-year-old woman has suffered a broken leg after being hit by a train.

June 23rd, 2009 Recent commuter train accidents in the USRecent commuter train accidents in the United States: —June 4, 2009: A light rail train and a city bus collide in downtown Phoenix, slightly injuring several passengers. —May 8, 2009: A trolley rear-ends another trolley that is stopped between two underground stations in downtown Boston, injuring about 50 people.

June 23rd, 2009 5 of those killed in DC metro crash identifiedWASHINGTON — Officials are identifying five of the victims killed in a subway train crash in Washington, D.C. Metro officials said at a special board meeting Tuesday that four passengers ranging in age from 23 to 64 were killed when a train barreling down the tracks hit a stopped train a day earlier.

June 11th, 2009 Car lands on tracks, struck by Chicago trainCHICAGO — Service along the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line was disrupted for three hours Thursday morning after a car jumped a retaining wall, landed on the tracks and was struck by a train. CTA spokeswoman Kimberly Myles says the driver got out of the vehicle before the collision and was being treated at a hospital.

May 1st, 2009 NJ dentist killed by train in NY while fishingPORT KENT, N.Y. — State police say a New Jersey dentist was struck and killed by an Amtrak train as he fished from a trestle in northern New York.

April 29th, 2009 Pa. woman, 85, loses scooter in 'repairman' scamJEANNETTE, Pa. — State police are looking for a bogus repairman who they say scammed an 85-year-old western Pennsylvania woman out of her electric scooter.