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| AP lists recent passenger train accidents |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following is a list of some recent passenger train accidents compiled by the Associated Press:
March 17, 2001. An Amtrak train carrying 210 people from Chicago to California derailed in rural southwest Iowa, killing one passenger and injuring about 90 others. Feb. 5, 2001. An Amtrak train collides with a freight train on the same track in Syracuse, N.Y., injuring 61 people. Nov. 4, 2000. An Amtrak train derails after hitting a truck near Moorpark, Calif., killing the truck driver and injuring about 30 people on the train. March 15, 2000. An Amtrak train derailed alongside a cornfield near Carbondale, Kan., injuring 29 passengers. Sept. 20, 1999. An Amtrak train rear-ended a freight train in a rail yard in Cumberland, Md., injuring 37 people. March 15, 1999. An Amtrak train collided with a truck and derailed near Bourbonnais, Ill., killing 13 people and injuring more than 100. June 18, 1998. A Chicago-bound commuter train slammed into a tractor-trailer carrying large steel coils in Portage, Ind., hurling one of the coils into a rail car, killing three passengers and injuring four others. |
| April 19, 2002 |
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