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List of rail accidents since 2010, removing those not related to crude oil transportation
[edit]2010
[edit]- 30 March 2010 – Canada – No one is injured in a freight train derailment when three non-operating locomotives derail and nine freight cars go off the tracks near Pickering GO station.[2]
- 13 May 2010 – United States – A northbound Amtrak Piedmont collides with a truck towing a low loader in Mebane, North Carolina. 11 are injured.[3]
- 10 September 2010 – United States – A conductor looses his arm when two trains collide in Fontana, California.[4]
- 30 September 2010 – United States – Two Canadian National ore trains collide head on twelve miles north of Two Harbors, Minnesota, injuring all five crew members.[5]
2011
[edit]- 13 March 2011 – United States – 2011 California BART train derailment – two cars of a ten car BART train derail in Northern California. Three minor back injuries are reported.[6]
- 27 March 2011 – Canada – About 20 cars of a 116-car train derail Sunday afternoon near Port Hope en route to Toronto. Families in twenty houses flee and a major passenger rail corridor is shut down. One empty derailed car catches fire and burns for about an hour.[7]
- 28 March 2011 – United States – A CSX train travelling through Newton Falls, Ohio with an estimated 100-cars of mixed freight (including hoppers and tank wagons), suffers a 12-car derailment at approximately 07.00 (local time) Eastern Daylight Time. Three rail cars fall off a bridge and onto Center Street.[8] Several of the tank cars are carrying chlorine; none are involved in the derailment. Initial reports indicate that at least one car may have leaked ammonia, but officials do not believe that any hazardous materials have escaped into the environment. Residents within 150 metres of the incident are evacuated, and most roads leading into town are closed by law enforcement officers. Local HAZMAT officials arrive to assess the scene, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation opens an inquiry into the incident 'as a matter of standard procedure'.[9][10]
- 17 April 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train hauling 130-cars of coal from Wyoming to Chicago rear-ends another train hauling maintenance equipment near Red Oak, Iowa about 07.00 (local time) on Sunday 17 April 2011. The lead locomotive on the coal train derails and fire engulfs the cab. The crew of two, the conductor and engineer, on the coal train are killed. Ten cars on the maintenance train derail. The two crew members on the maintenance train are not injured. The line is heavily trafficked and is shut down for 24 hours, with trains re-routed. An investigation is conducted by the NTSB.[11][12]
- 3 June 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern commuter train from Aurora, Illinois and an Amtrak train heading to Carbondale, Illinois collide at Chicago's Union Station at about 08.15, injuring at least five people. One of the trains derails.[13]
- 24 June 2011 – United States – Reno, Nevada: Despite the working signals on the track, an semi, driving on a rural stretch of U.S. Route 95 near Reno and Sparks, strikes one of the cars of a west-bound California Zephyr Amtrak passenger train, killing at least six people, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez and the Churchill County Sheriff's Office (the driver of the articulated lorry, whose reason or motivation remains unclear at this time, and an Amtrak conductor on board the train are two confirmed deaths so far).[14]
- 11 July 2011 – United States – An Amtrak Downeaster passenger train from Boston, Massachusetts heading to Portland, Maine is struck by a dustbin lorry at a crossing in North Berwick, Maine, killing the driver of the lorry and setting the locomotive and one passenger car on fire.[15]
- 7 October 2011 – United States – 26 cars of a 131-car freight train derail and explode near Tiskilwa in Bureau County, Illinois, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) west of Chicago. No injuries are reported; 800 people are evacuated.[16][17]
- 12 October 2011 – United States – In Oakland, California a southbound Amtrak San Joaquin train passes a red signal and collides with a stopped Coast Starlight train at low speed, injuring seventeen people.[18]
2012
[edit]- 6 January 2012 – United States – Three CSX freight trains collide in a remote section of Porter County, Indiana resulting in a fire and possible HAZMAT situation. Two injuries are reported.[19]
- 17 January 2012 – United States – A BNSF freight train collides with a tractor trailer in northeast Montana, causing ten rail cars to derail, including four locomotives and blocking the traffic on the rail line.[20]
- 20 January 2012 – Canada – Eighteen CN freight train cars derail near the hamlet of Hay Lakes, Alberta. No hazardous goods are on the train.[21]
- 21 January 2012 – Canada – CN train derails roughly halfway across the Wainwright, Alberta railway bridge. 31 grain cars derail, 17 of them fall off the bridge and into the valley below.[22]
- 1 February 2012 – United States – The Amtrak Wolverine train from Pontiac, Michigan to Chicago, carrying 71 passengers and 5 crew, strikes a stalled tractor trailer (carrying equipment for oil production) on tracks in Leoni Township, Michigan. The lead engine and at least two cars derail. There are no fatalities, and six people suffer non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Jackson Citizen Patriot and the Blackman-Leoni Public Safety Department.[23]
- 26 February 2012 – Canada – 2012 Burlington VIA derailment – A Via Rail train derails near Burlington, Ontario. Three engineers die, and dozens are injured.[24]
- 24 June 2012 – United States – Three crew members were killed when two Union Pacific trains slammed into each other just east of Goodwell, about 480 kilometres northwest of Oklahoma City. The crash triggered a diesel-fueled fireball that appeared to weld the locomotives together.[25][26]
- 4 July 2012 – United States – A Union Pacific coal train heading to Wisconsin derails, collapsing an overpass on Shermer Road in Glenview, Illinois at about 13.45. A day later, a couple, having been crushed by the falling coal and cars, are found dead in their car buried beneath the rubble.[27]
- 11 July 2012 – United States – A Norfolk Southern train with 2 locomotives and 98 cars derails in Columbus, Ohio, near the Ohio State Fairgrounds at 02.05 CDT. The resulting explosion, caused in part due to the burning of 76,000 litres (17,000 imperial gallons) of ethanol, causes a mile-wide evacuation. At the time of the explosion, two nearby individuals are injured; they drive themselves to hospital.[28]
- 21 July 2012 – United States – A Kansas City Southern freight train collides with a BNSF coal train and derails in Barton County, MO, injuring two railway workers.[29]
- 21 August 2012 – United States – Two women celebrating the night before their return to university on a railway bridge die shortly after midnight when a CSX coal train derails on the bridge in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland, burying the women under coal.[30] The NTSB investigation attributed the probable cause of the derailment to a broken rail.[31]
- 1 October 2012 – United States – In California Amtrak Train 712, travelling from Oakland, CA to Bakersfield, CA, is hit by a lorry carrying cotton at a gated level crossing. Three of the train's five cars as well as the trailing GE P42DC locomotive, #94, derailed. No deaths, 50 injuries.
- 29 October 2012 – United States – Thirteen cars of a 57-car Paducah & Louisville (P&L) freight train derail near West Point, Kentucky. A tank car loaded with butadiene leaked and later caught fire while workers were repairing the track. No deaths, 5 injured. On 31 October, the train derailment exploded at 13:30 causing evacuations to be ordered in a 2 kilometre radius and an 8 kilometre radius to stay indoors. 3 were seriously burned in the explosion.
- 15 November 2012 – United States – Midland train crash – Around 16.30 four people die and 16 others are injured when a Union Pacific train strikes a parade float headed to an event honouring wounded veterans in Midland, Texas.[32][33]
- 30 November 2012 – United States – One of three daily trains that cross an old style swing bridge derails near Paulsboro, New Jersey, resulting in one car leaking vinyl chloride into the air. More than 40 people were treated for breathing problems in the immediate area. The bridge is said to have buckled, after having been rebuilt in 2010 after a similar 2009 crash.[34]
- 17 December 2012 – United States – A BNSF intermodal train from Chicago derails when a landslide strikes it in Everett, Washington. This event is captured on video.[35][36]
2013
[edit]- 26 April 2013 – United States – At a rural Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad crossing, in Butler County, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), an Allegheny Valley Railroad freight train carrying asphalt (with 2 locomotives, 29 cars; traveling at the 25 mph limit) strikes an Alliance for Nonprofit Resources Inc. Butler Area Rural Transit Authority bus carrying impaired seniors and younger adults at the Maple Street intersection. It's unclear whether the bus stopped on or before the tracks; the train's brakes are believed to have been applied and the horn to have sounded. Two people are flown by helicopter to area trauma centres–one was in critical condition, and a 91-year-old woman dies later at Allegheny General Hospital. Ten others, including the bus driver, are also hospitalised.[37]
- 17 May 2013 – United States – Fairfield train crash – Sixty people are injured (five critically) and rail traffic from New York to Boston is shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derails and plows into a second train in Fairfield, Connecticut.[38]
- 25 May 2013 – United States – Seven people are injured when two freight trains collide early in the morning at a rail intersection in southeast Missouri, causing a highway overpass to collapse (this occurred shortly after a bridge collapse in Washington state and the above-mentioned Fairfield, Connecticut commuter train collision). The accident occurs when a Union Pacific train T-bones a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train outside of Scott City, Missouri about 190 kilometres (120 mi) south of St. Louis, Missouri. One of the trains derails, sending rail cars smashing into an overpass support pillar. Five of the injured are in automobiles, and two are on the train. All but one of the injured are treated and released from the hospital. 37°12′35″N 89°44′45″W / 37.209636°N 89.745727°W[39][40]
- 28 May 2013 – United States – A freight train derails outside Rosedale, Maryland, just outside Baltimore after colliding with a garbage truck. Fifteen cars from the CSX train Q409 derail and two catch fire. An explosion damages nearby buildings. Only the truck driver is injured. Those within a 20-block radius of the crash site are asked to evacuate. Hazardous materials crews are sent to the scene. The National Transportation Safety Board sends a team to investigate the accident.[41]
- 20 June 2013 – Canada – A rail bridge in Calgary, Alberta, weakened by recent flooding, collapses with 4 empty tank cars hanging just above the still swollen Bow River. No one is injured, and the cars are removed safely.
- 6 July 2013 – Canada – Lac-Mégantic derailment – A freight train containing 72 tank cars of crude oil runs away while unattended and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Several cars explode, resulting in 42 confirmed dead and 5 missing and presumed dead; over 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, are destroyed.
- 5 August 2013 – United States – More than 20 cars of Union Pacific train derail in Louisiana near Lawtell.[42]
- 18 September 2013 – Canada – Ottawa bus-train crash – An OC Transpo double decker bus collides with a Via Rail train in the Ottawa, Ontario suburb of Barrhaven near Fallowfield Station; at least six bus passengers including the driver die. No one on board the train dies.[43]
- 19 September 2013 – United States – A CSX train derails in Southampton County, Virginia injuring two engineers and starting a fire.[44]
- 30 September 2013 – United States – An out-of-service Chicago Transit Authority train crashes head-on into a stopped train in Forest Park, Illinois, injuring 33 people.[45]
- 11 October 2013 – United States – A truck carrying logs collides with a Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad train carrying 63 people in Randolph County, West Virginia. The driver of the truck dies, and 23 on the train are injured, six of them seriously.[46]
- 19 October 2013 – Canada – A train with 13 cars carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derails west of Edmonton, Alberta. Local residents are evacuated in Gainford, Alberta located some 85 km (53 miles) from the capital. A fire results and no one was injured.[47]
- 24 October 2013 – United States – One person dies when four freight cars loaded with gravel derail at the SunRail station on State Road 46 in Sanford, Florida.[48]
- 8 November 2013 – United States – A 90-car freight train carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale patch in North Dakota (possibly similar to the type carried in the July 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment in Quebec, Canada), from Amory, Mississippi to a refinery in Walnut Hill, Florida, derails and explodes in the morning in Pickens County, Alabama (west AL); the flames, which shot upward 300 feet high, were left to burn themselves out, which may take up to 24 hours. There were no fatalities or injuries.[49]
- 30 November 2013 – United States – Southwestern Railroad (New Mexico) train derails outside Silver City, New Mexico, resulting in the death of the conductor Steven "Steve" Crose, 60, engineer Donald "D.A." White, 38, and ride-along passenger Ann Thompson, 50. The train is leaving a mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold on a 6% slope when it experiences braking failure. Traveling out of control for miles, the locomotive, which contains all three occupants, eventually leaves the track on a curve completely disconnecting from the eight cars heavily loaded with magnetite and slides into an arroyo (creek). All three occupants of the locomotive are killed immediately on impact and must be extricated from the badly damaged locomotive by emergency responders. The eight freight cars continue on the track a short distance before stopping. It is originally reported that all three occupants are male employees,[50] but a correction later specifies that the female ride-along passenger was not an employee.[51]
- 1 December 2013 – United States – Derailment at Spuyten Duyvil, the Bronx, New York City – The engineer of a Metro-North Railroad passenger train from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station falls asleep with the train at full throttle. It enters a 30 mph (48 km/h) curve just before Spuyten Duyvil station at 82 mph (132 km/h) and derails, killing 4 and injuring 63. It is the first Metro-North accident with passenger fatalities.[52] The engineer's fatigue was caused by severe, undiagnosed sleep apnea in combination with a recent shift change.[53]
- 5 December 2013 – United States – A runaway Canadian National ore train rear-ends an ore train in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Two crew members jumped clear and two crew members were hospitalized when they stayed in a trailing locomotive.
- 27 December 2013 – Canada – Seven rail cars of a CN freight train derailed while passing through the Wainwright Rail Yard at low speed. Three empty grain cars came completely off the tracks; the other four remained upright, with some damage to an auto rack car. No damage was apparent to an overpass that the train was passing under.[54]
- 30 December 2013 – United States – Casselton train derailment – Several grain cars from a westbound train derail and strike an eastbound train carrying crude oil on an adjoining track near Casselton, North Dakota. Several crude oil cars explode, resulting in large clouds of black smoke which forced an evacuation of the area. No casualties were reported.[55]
2014
[edit]- 7 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train carrying crude oil and propane derails near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. The resulting fire forces an evacuation of the area within a two-kilometre radius. No injuries are reported.[56][57]
- 7 January 2014 – United States – A CTA Yellow Line passenger train derails in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The two-car train derailed in the early afternoon, briefly disrupting late afternoon rush hour traffic. No injuries were reported.[58]
- 13 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train derails near Kent, Washington after a landslide. The landslide also disrupted Amtrak and Sound Transit passenger rail service.[59]
- 17 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train hauling fruits, vegetables and empty intermodal cars derails near Williston, North Dakota. The derailment also disrupted Amtrak passenger rail service between Minot, North Dakota and Havre, Montana. No injuries were reported.[60]
- 17 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying coal derails near Dunnellon, Florida. Twelve cars of the 100-car train derailed in a rural area. The train was transporting the coal to the Duke Energy Crystal River Energy Complex. No injuries were reported.[61]
- 19 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying coal derails near Caledonia, Wisconsin. Nineteen cars of the 135-car train derailed. The cause is believed to be cracked rails caused by unusually cold winter conditions. No injuries were reported.[62]
- 20 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying crude oil derails in Philladelphia, Pennsylvania. Seven cars of a 101-car train derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill Expressway, causing the road to be shut down for brief periods of time as emergency crews drained the tankers. No injuries were reported.[63]
- 22 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train transporting 18 empty intermodal rail cars derails inside the Lindenwood Yard in St. Louis, Missouri. No injuries were reported and the derailment was cleared the same day.[64]
- 23 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train carrying corn derails near Ross, North Dakota. The derailment of eleven cars disrupted transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil formation to ports in Montana. No injuries were reported.[65]
- 25 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific freight train derails near Morrow, Louisiana. No injuries were reported, and no chemical or hazardous materials were reported as spilled.[66]
- 27 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling liquefied petroleum gas, clay, and automobiles derails near the Saint-Basile community of Edmunston, New Brunswick. Five cars left the tracks, three carrying automobiles, and one each of LPG and clay. No injuries were reported.[67]
- 27 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying scrap paper derails near Pollard Flat, California. Only one box car in the four-car train was carrying cargo, with no cargo spillage. The derailment caused disruption to Amtrak passenger rail service, resulting in riders being transported via buses between Oregon and California.[68]
- 28 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying plastic pellets derails near Mundelein, Illinois. One set of wheels on a hopper in a 110-car train derailed on a single lane track, resulting in disruptions of service over two days for several passenger and freight services as trains needed to be rerouted.[69]
- 28 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying phosphoric acid derails near McDavid, Florida. 23 of the 69 cars derailed, resulting in the destruction of the tracks and bridge over Fletcher Creek, and chemicals leaking into the water. No injuries were reported.[70]
- 30 January 2014 – United States – A NS train transporting 179 empty coal cars derailed near Jewell Ridge, Virginia. No injuries were reported, and the accident was cleared on the same day.[71]
- 31 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying crude oil, methane and liquid fertilizer derails near New Augusta, Mississippi. 18 to 24 cars of the 85-car train derailed and began leaking. The derailment occurred in a rural area, but resulted in 12 families being evacuated and four lanes of U.S. 98 closed as emergency responders began to clean up the spill. No injuries were reported.[72]
- 24 March 2014 – United States – A train in Chicago, Illinois overruns the buffers and goes up the escalator at O'Hare International Airport, injuring 32 people.[73]
- 10 May 2014 – United States – a train traveling in Colorado derails and spills 6,500 US gallons (25,000 L; 5,400 imp gal) of oil west of LaSalle, Colorado.[74]
- 4 July 2014 – United States – 19 cars of a Montana Rail Link train, carrying manufactured plane parts, soybeans, and alcohol from Kansas City, Kansas to Renton, Washington, derail. 3 airplane fuselages spill into a local river. No injuries are reported, and the nearby river pass and fishing gorge is closed to remove debris.[75]
- 17 August 2014 – United States – two Union Pacific locomotives hit head on, in Hoxie, Arkansas, killing two crewmen and injuring two others. Several cars derail, resulting in a fire that causes the evacuation of 500 residents.[76]
- 5 October 2014 – United States – a Union Pacific freight train slams into a lowboy trailer in Mer Rouge, LA, seriously injuring both railroad crew and causing two engines along with 17 cars to derail. 50 homes are evacuated for about two hours due to the leakage of argon gas from the tank car.[citation needed]
- 7 October 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling dangerous goods derails near Clair, Saskatchewan. Twenty six of the 100 rail cars derail, two of which leaki petroleum distillate and catch fire. The approximately 50 residences of Clair and surrounding farms are evacuated and Highway 5 is shut down.[77]
- 16 October 2014 – United States – An excursion train of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad stalls on the mainline near West Fork, Arkansas; the crew of the locomotive sent to help the train does not have the precise location of the stalled train and runs into the stalled train's locomotive after rounding a curve. 44 people are injured in the collision, 5 critically.[78][79] An NTSB team was dispatched to investigate.[80]
- 28 October 2014 – United States – 24 were injured when an Amtrak train collided with a semi truck on U.S. Route 421.[81]
2015
[edit]- 7 January – Canada – A CN freight train hauling 114 cars heading east from Edmonton, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan derailed between the community of Jarrow, Alberta and village of Irma. Twenty-three cars derailed, of which one began leaking a non-dangerous liquid adhesive. The ensuing cleanup resulted in the temporary closure of a section of Highway 14.[82]
- 14 January – United States – A Reuters online news story article, from Austin, Texas, appearing on the MSN News webpage, on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, stated that a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people was hit by a train. At least ten people were killed near Odessa, Texas, according to a CBS affiliate and the Odessa American newspaper. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus with 12 inmates and three officers was traveling from Abilene, Texas to El Paso, Texas. The Medical Center Hospital in Odessa is treating five patients, according to a hospital spokeswoman. No further information on injuries or deaths or further victims was provided by the hospital or the Department.[83]
- 3 February – United States – A Metro-North Railroad train strikes one car at a crossing and catches on fire, killing six people.[84]
- 16 February – United States – A CSX freight train derails in West Virginia. At least 7 tank cars catch fire, with over 60 people evacuated from their homes nearby.[85]
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