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Warsaw Commuter Trains Crash Head-On, 2 Hurt
Naharnet
by Naharnet Newsdesk 23 May 2012, 09:24 Two commuter trains collided head-on in Warsaw Wednesday, injuring two people, on a stretch of railway near Poland's new national stadium where the Euro 2012 football championships kick off in June. The crash ...

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Train Hits Truck in Lower Valley
KTSM News Channel 9
EL PASO - Tense moments in the Lower Valley after a train slammed into a truck on the railroad tracks. No one was hurt in the accident, but you could say the crash was a close call. An El Paso police spokesman says two cars hit head-on around 12:30 pm ...

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São Paulo subway crash injures at least 33 (VIDEO)
GlobalPost
A São Paulo subway train crashed into the back of another while approaching a busy station this morning, injuring at least 33, with two in critical condition with head injuries. A train arrives at Bresser station in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, ...

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Road Still Closed Thursday Due to Train Derailment
WSET
The train passes his house about a dozen times a day. His wife had him head over to the crash site to see if everyone was alright. "Some of her friends texted her over the phone and told her one had derailed over here in Pamplin.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Fatal head-on crash with road train
Sydney Morning Herald
One man believed to be in his 30s has died in a head-on collision between a car and a road train north of Perth. The crash happened just before 8.30am today about 14 kilometres north of Cataby on the Brand Highway. Police spokesperson Samuel Dinnison ...

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Crossing blamed in train-cattle trailer collision
LubbockOnline.com
By ANDREA SINCLAIR Neither the driver of the rig nor the train's engineer were responsible for a collision resulting in the deaths of about 20 cows, said the owner of the company that transported the 85 head of cattle involved in Wednesday night's ...

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Obama administration heeds industry call to ease rail safety rules
Kansas City Star
The safeguards are due to be installed by the end of 2015 under legislation passed by Congress in response to the deadly head-on train crash in Chatsworth, Calif. The administration said the exemption would apply only to track that would not be used to ...

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Metrolink chief credited for improving rail safety will step down
Los Angeles Times
Metrolink Chief Executive John Fenton, who has worked to improve the service and safety of the struggling commuter line following the deadly Chatsworth crash, announced his resignation Monday to become the head of a Florida-based railroad company.

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UN refugee train disaster in the Congo
Deccan Chronicle
Elisabethville, May 21: Eighty-eight people, including 34 UN Indian soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles, were injured, mostly not seriously, in a crash involving a crowded UN refugee train here yesterday afternoon. Ten of the injured Indian personnel were ...

Daily Mail
Gareth Southgate understands Gary Neville criticism
Daily Mail
By Chris Wheeler Gareth Southgate, the FA's head of elite development, has admitted that he would understand if top coaches were unhappy at Gary Neville being fast-tracked onto new England manager Roy Hodgson's back-room team. Hodgson sprang a surprise ...

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