Earlier this year, after de Blasio didn't visit the Brooklyn station where an Long Island
Railroad train derailed, he noted it wasn't of the same «magnitude» as the Metro North crash, since nobody died.
Not exact matches
Mechanical failures, especially of the brakes, made runaway
trains common in the early days of
railroading — mindless monsters rolling out of control for many miles up and down grades until they crashed into another
train or
derailed at high speed on a curve.
On July 6, 2013, a catastrophic
railroad accident involving a U.S.
railroad company occurred in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, when an unattended freight
train transporting petroleum crude oil rolled down a descending grade and subsequently
derailed.
Local resident Henri - Paul Audette told the Huffington Post that his brother's apartment was next to the
railroad tracks, very close to the spot where the
train derailed.
Similarly, when a
railroad company fails to operate a
train safely and it
derails, injuries can be significant.
-LSB-...] you are a victim and have been involved in a
train accident, whether in a vehicle that was hit due to unsafe
railroad crossings, or on the
train that
derailed, -LSB-...]