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Rail agency aims to widen drug tests
Omaha World-Herald
The rail regulator since 1985 has tested train operators involved in serious accidents for alcohol and illegal drugs, including cocaine and marijuana. Tests for both legal and illegal drugs are conducted after almost all fatal aviation accidents.

Marseilles man feigns pedestrian-versus-train accident
Morris Daily Herald
MARSEILLES, Ill. — After what authorities suspected to be a pedestrian-versus-train accident proved not to be, police charged a Marseilles man with trespass to railroad property and unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor.
Marseilles man arrested following train incidentMyWebTimes.com

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Recommended: Mother's Day tragedy: Four women killed as Chicago crash rips car ...
msnbc.com
By NBC Chicago and msnbc.com wire services A speeding car hit a support beam of a Chicago elevated train track, crashing with enough force for the vehicle to split in two and killing four young mothers inside, authorities said Sunday.

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The Saginaw News - MLive.com
Man hospitalized after van collides with train in Thomas Township
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
By Brad Devereaux | bdeverea@mlive.com THOMAS TOWNSHIP, MI — A Saginaw County man was hospitalized after the van he was driving was hit by a train today. The crash happened about 12:39 pm, Sgt. Kevin Stevens of the Saginaw County Sheriff's Office said.

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Harmon closing in on retiring but still teaches
KLAS-TV
LAS VEGAS -- Police know alcohol was involved in a crash early Monday morning that killed 16-year-old Isaac Polu. The crash also sent two other people to the hospital with critical injuries. Polu wasMore>> LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police have identified ...

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Teacher offers guilty plea in DUI-related trolley crash
Delaware County Daily Times
By ALEX ROSE MEDIA COURTHOUSE — A suspended Upper Darby High School special education teacher fell prey to the “devil of alcohol” when he drunkenly drove his car onto a side rail of the Norristown High Speed Line in October and caused a collision, ...

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ABC News
Pit Bull Rescues Unconscious Owner from Oncoming Train
ABC News
A Massachusetts pit bull named Lilly took on a freight train last week to save her owner, who collapsed unconscious onto the tracks during a late-night walk in Shirley. The 8-year-old dog used her teeth to pull Christine Spain, 54, off the tracks as ...

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Belleville News Democrat
6 die in Madison County, including 3 in Granite City crash
Belleville News Democrat
... of six people in less than 24 hours in Madison County: three were killed in a Granite City crash, a woman died after a house fire in Glen Carbon, a bicyclist was fatally hit by a vehicle and a man running to beat a train in Venice didn't make it.

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Talented Londoner Trevor Barton killed Saturday night in train accident
St. Thomas Times-Journal
The area is typically busy at that time with patrons leaving bars. "There can a number of factors when it comes to an incident like this: alcohol, inattentiveness, texting or cellphones. It's so important to pay attention to train tracks or roadways," ...

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Museum's trains are no small deal
Chicago Sun-Times
he said, with complete earnestness, snapping into action, hurrying to where a John Deere tractor had tumbled off a flatbed car, onto an adjacent track, where it knocked aside an oncoming train. Usually such an accident would be more than a one-man ...

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