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A Kansas tractor trailer driver and several cattle were injured in a crash with a train at a railroad crossing on US Highway ...

An Amtrak train collided with a pickup truck at a crossing in southern Alabama, but no serious injuries were reported.

The heavy haul trucking company whose rig was stopped on a grade crossing and struck by a Union Pacific Z-train a year ago, ...

The Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday issued a pair of safety alerts related to recent grade crossing accidents that killed railroaders or motorists. In a safety advisory, the FRA emphasized ...

It likely will be months before we know definitively the cause of the fatal Oct. 23 collisions between a pickup truck and a ...

A train and a truck collided Tuesday at a Baltimore County railroad crossing that some have called dangerous, following at least seven crashes since a devastating 2013 explosion. Tuesday's collision ...

The national passenger rail company is stressing driver education.

Fourteen corn-carrying wagons were lying on their side after the derailment, which was caused by the train hitting a truck that was crossing the railway lines. The rail operator said that, under the ...

No injuries were reported, but video shows just how close the incident came to tragedy ...

Police in Selma are investigating the circumstances around a crash between a pick-up truck and an Amtrak train that left at ...

Two Amtrak trains stopped amid delays after a car was hit by a train at a Halifax County rail crossing Sunday evening, ...