Punctured Cars in North Dakota Train Crash Spilled 400K Gallons of Crude Oil January 15, 2014 By Brendan O'Brien Eighteen of 20 tanker cars carrying oil that derailed in the fiery crash of two trains in North Dakota in...
NTSB: Technology Upgrade Likely Could Have Prevented N.Y. Train Derailment December 12, 2013 By Jim Fitzgerald Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they’ve been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train...
Rescheduled Asiana Crash Hearing to Probe Pilot Reliance on Automation December 10, 2013 By Alan Levin A U.S. safety regulator’s hearing on the July 6 crash of an Asiana Airlines Inc. plane in San Francisco was...
Wall Street Commuter Ferry Operator Settles Crash Claims October 31, 2013 By David Voreacos The owner of SeaStreak Wall Street, a commuter ferry that crashed in Manhattan’s financial district on Jan. 9, has settled...
NTSB: 2 Dead BART Workers In California Charge Of Own Safety October 24, 2013 National Transportation Safety Board investigators say under Bay Area Rapid Transit rules, the two track workers who were killed in...
Safety Probes at Risk Without More Funding: NTSB August 20, 2013 By Julianna Goldman and Bernard Kohn The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, handling the most accident investigations since the 1990s, is “going to have to let...
New Safety Recommendations for School Buses Weighed July 26, 2013 By Joan Lowy Federal accident investigators are considering new safety recommendations for school buses, large trucks and commercial drivers based on two similar...
Safety Board Recommends ‘Talking Vehicles’ Technology in New Models July 25, 2013 By Joan Lowy The government should set performance standards for new safety technology that allows cars and trucks to talk to each other...
Investigators Hunt for Cause of San Francisco Plane Crash July 7, 2013 By Sarah McBride U.S. officials examined flight information recorders and began investigating the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that burst into...
Bus Company Owner Faces Charges from Fatal 2008 Texas Crash June 21, 2013 By Danny Robbins The owner of a Houston bus company has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the 2008 Texas crash that...