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India Train Collision Kills 25

At least 40 hospitalized with injuries

(AP) - A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn today in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more. Rescuers worked for about six hours to pull some 70 survivors from the twisted and smoldering wreckage near the southwestern border of Andhra... More »

PayPal Exec Killed on Train Tracks

No details yet in Eric Salvatierra's death

(Newser) - Eric Salvatierra, a 39-year-old PayPal executive, was killed on Caltrain tracks in California Friday morning. The married father of three was struck on the northbound tracks, and his death remains under investigation. "All I know is he had his bike," Salvatierra's uncle tells the San Jose Mercury ... More »

Poland Train Collision Kills 16, Injures Scores

PM calls it 'most tragic rail disaster' in years

(Newser) - At least 16 people are dead and 58 injured in a head-on train crash in Poland late last night, the AP reports. A train traveling south from Warsaw to Krakow was accidentally put on the wrong track; train maintenance was being carried out on one of the tracks in the... More »

16 Hurt in California Amtrak Crash

Low-speed crash caused only minor injuries

(AP) - An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers at a station in California, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, authorities said. The crash occurred late yesterday as the passenger train, traveling at a speed of up to about 20mph, struck the stationary Amtrak train at the station in... More »

Mom Pushing Stroller Killed by California Train

But Susan Dibene manages to push her daughter to safety

(Newser) - A Southern California mom struggling with a stroller over tracks was killed by a train, but first managed to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety. Susan Dibene, 33, was pushing the stroller along a sidewalk near the tracks when she attempted to cross as the guardrail of the Metrolink train... More »

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