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6/1/2006 10:06:00 AM | Lawsuit filed over mini-train accident 
=(0) An oil company has been sued in Traverse City, Michigan, over an accident that occurred in the city zoo last summer. An employee, delivering fuel to a tank, allowed a diesel fuel hose to cross a train track, and the zoo's "miniature" train ran over it, causing a fire. Nobody was killed but there were injuries, and the lawsuit in question ...
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5/23/2006 6:14:00 AM | Family of train-wreck victim to sue for $1M =(0) The family of a Mississippi man who was killed when a train hit his car at a level crossing, will sue the county and the town as well as CN Rail and Amtrak, for $1 million. The crossing had only a sign but no crossing gates or warning lights at the time of the accident in March 2006. Warning lights were in the process of being approved an...
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5/10/2006 3:18:00 AM | Amtrak, families reach settlement over girls' deaths - =(0) Amtrak has settled with the families of two Washington State girls who were struck and killed by a train while walking on railway tracks in 2000. The suit centered around whether the train engineer was negligent. Although he had blown the whistle, two of three girls at the scene did not get out of the way in time. Amtrak was originally cl...
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5/7/2006 4:40:00 AM | Parents may sue MBTA over fatal accident =(0) The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has ruled that a lawsuit against the MBTA and Amtrak may proceed. It concerns the death, seven years ago, of a young girl who was hit by a train while trying to negotiate a level crossing with her bicycle. The girl's parents contend that the train was speeding and that the engineer did not blow ...
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4/4/2006 6:09:00 AM | Warning lights powerless =(0) The signals and cross bars that had been installed but not made operational have been activated in Terry, Mississippi where a 24 year old father of two was killed when an Amtrak train collided with his car in what many are calling an unnecessary train accident. Blame has been passed from the train company officials to the electric company and beyon...
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4/1/2006 6:29:00 AM | Terry car-train crash kills 1 =(0) A 24 year old father of two was killed in Terry, Mississippi when an Amtrak passenger train collided with his Honda, Civic. Witnesses heard the car's horn honking before impact and warning lights and cross bars, although recently installed at the railroad crossing, were not operational. Train accidents of this kind are common across the U.S. prompt...
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3/31/2006 8:09:00 AM | Man Airlifted To Hospital After Train Accident =(0) A 56 year old conductor with the Union Railroad lost his leg in a train accident while trying to connect two cars. He was pulled under the train and also suffered an arm injury. He was airlifted to a local hospital. Train accidents of this nature are somewhat rare and investigators are looking at the causes of the incident to ensure that the both t...
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3/28/2006 10:57:00 AM | Amtrak Train Hits Dump Truck Near Burlington =(0) An Amtrak passenger train hit a dump truck just west of Burlington, North Carolina. The driver of the dump truck was uninjured. The engineer was injured and the Amtrak passenger train was carrying about 50 people, whose conditions are unknown. The cause of the train accident is yet to be determined.......
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