- What are the most often causes of train derailments and collisions, and railway accidents in general? Events such as sabotage, militant groups attack, lightning struck or the explosion of a portable gas stove should definitely not be on that list.

Rescuers work at the site of passenger train that crashed into a goods train, near Bilaspur, about 116 kilometers (72 miles) from Indian Chhattisgarh's state capital, Raipur, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. NEW DELHI (AP) — A passenger train slammed into a cargo ...

Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said ...

Channel 2’s Michael Doudna started diving into the numbers that show Georgia is one of the worst places in the country for train accidents. “Seeing any crashes in Georgia is too often. I would say that all incidents are preventable. They’re avoidable,” said Jennifer Tyler, State Coordinator for Georgia Operation Lifesaver

No passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred some 110 miles by road east of the capital Colombo. Railway authorities said an investigation was underway, and engineers were trying to put the Colombo-Batticaloa train back on the track after the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in Greece has killed dozens of ...

July 9 (Reuters) - The fire and explosion in the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic could be North America's worst rail disaster since 1989 if the final death toll matches worst fears. Thirteen people were confirmed dead and 37 missing, with hopes fading ...