List of recent train crashes

October 9, 1995
Web posted at: 3:15 p.m. EDT

Sunset Limited
October 9, 1995 - Palo Verde, Arizona: Four cars plunged off a trestle in a remote desert area, killing at least one and injuring 65 others. Early evidence suggested the tracks had been tampered with.

Commuter train
October 3, 1995 - Milford, Connecticut: The train smashed into a flatbed truck at a crossing, derailing two passenger cars and injuring 22 people.

Metra Burlington Northern
September 23, 1995 - Chicago, Illinois: The Metra train hit a bumping post at Chicago's Union Station, injuring 15 passengers.

Silver Star
September 22, 1995 - near Indiantown, Florida: The train rammed a semi-trailer at a rural crossing, killing the train engineer and injuring five people.

Lake Shore Limited
August 3,1994 - Batavia, New York: Nine passenger cars derailed, injuring as many as 125 of the 320 people on board.

Burlington Northern
August 3, 1994 - Douglas, Wyoming: Five people died when their car collided with a freight train at a crossing.

Silver Meteor
June 7, 1994 - Comstock, Michigan: A truck slid into the path of an Amtrak train, derailing three cars. The truck driver died, 14 train passengers were injured.

Crescent
May 16, 1994 - Smithfield, North Carolina. One person died and 97 were injured when a train carrying 441 passengers and crew struck a flatbed trailer truck that was being carried by a freight train on an adjacent track.

Pioneer
March 3, 1994 - Platteville, Connecticut: The train derailed after it struck a water truck on the tracks. Only minor injuries were reported among the 160 passengers on board.

Broadway Limited
December 21, 1993 - Gary Indiana: One person was killed and 39 were injured when a train with 190 people on board hit a tractor trailer at a crossing. The driver was killed.

Silver Meteor
November 30, 1993 - Intercession City, Florida: Sixty-three people were injured when the train derailed as it struck a multi-ton electric turbine stalled on the track. No one had told the railroad that the special move was taking place.

Pioneer
November 21, 1993 - near Boise, Idaho: Sixteen people were injured when the train's engines and front cars derailed as the train hit a curve. There were 230 people aboard.

Sunset Limited September 22, 1993 - near Mobile, Alabama: Forty-seven people were killed, and $300 million in damage and liability claims were made after a tug boat hit a trestle and weakened its structure, plunging the train into a river.

Silver Meteor
May 21, 1993 - Opa-locka, Florida: Five people were injured after the engine flipped on its side and the first three cars jumped the tracks. Debris on the tracks was to blame.

Silver Star
March 17, 1993 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida: A truck driver and five motorists were killed and 15 people were injured when the train collided with a gasoline tanker at a crossing. The train was found to be going twice the speed limit.

Pere Marquette
December 30, 1992 - Stevensville, Michigan: Seven people were injured when the four coaches of the train derailed and the engine overturned. A split in the rail was to blame..

December 18, 1992 - Moorpark, California: Three people died when their stalled van was struck by a train at an unguarded crossing.

Capitol
December 16, 1992 - Davis, California: A five car passenger train derailed after hitting an empty car sitting on the tracks.

Bay State
August 23, 1992 - Wallingford, Connecticut: Three people were killed when a train struck their car.

Colonial
August 12, 1992 - Newport News, Virginia: Vandalism was blamed for the derailment which injured 70 people. A rail switch was broken into and set the wrong way.

April 29, 1992 - Newport News, Virginia: One person was killed and 57 were injured when a train hit a dump truck whose driver failed to yield.

Crescent
June 4, 1992 - June 4, 1992 -- Poplarville, Mississippi: Ten people were injured when the train derailed after striking a garbage truck.

July 31, 1991 - Camden, South Carolina: Eight people died in a train crash blamed on lax track maintenance and inspections.

January 4, 1987 - Chase, Maryland: Three Conrail locomotives collided with an Amtrak passenger train, killing 16 people and injuring 176.

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