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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2010–present)
More than 50
Look at the amount of US rail accident. Pathetic
2 killed ) 17 April 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train hauling 130-cars of coal from Wyoming to Chicago rear-ends another train hauling maintenance equipment near Red Oak, Iowa about 07.00 (local time) on Sunday 17 April 2011. The lead locomotive on the coal train derails and fire engulfs the cab. The crew of two, the conductor and engineer, on the coal train are killed
5 killed ) 24 June 2011 – United States – Miriam (near Reno), Nevada: Despite the working signals on the track, a semi, driving on a rural stretch of U.S. Route 95 near Reno and Sparks, strikes one of the cars of a west-bound California Zephyr Amtrak passenger train, killing at least six people, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez and the Churchill County Sheriff's Office (the driver of the semi, whose reason or motivation remains unclear at this time, and an Amtrak conductor on board the train are two confirmed deaths so far).[75]
3 killed ) 24 June 2012 – United States – Three crew members were killed when two Union Pacific trains slammed into each other just east of Goodwell, about 480 kilometres northwest of Oklahoma City. The crash triggered a diesel-fueled fireball that appeared to weld the locomotives together.[130][131]
0 killed on train) 21 August 2012 – United States – Two women celebrating the night before their return to university on a railway bridge die shortly after midnight when a CSX coal train derails on the bridge in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland, burying the women under coal.[140] The NTSB investigation attributed the probable cause of the derailment to a broken rail.[141]
0 killed on train) 15 November 2012 – United States – Midland train crash – Around 16.30 four people die and 16 others are injured when a Union Pacific train strikes a parade float headed to an event honouring wounded veterans in Midland, Texas.[153][154]
0 killed on train) 26 April 2013 – United States – At a rural Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad crossing, in Butler County, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), an Allegheny Valley Railroad freight train carrying asphalt (with 2 locomotives, 29 cars; traveling at the 25 mph limit) strikes an Alliance for Nonprofit Resources Inc. Butler Area Rural Transit Authority bus carrying impaired seniors and younger adults at the Maple Street intersection. It's unclear whether the bus stopped on or before the tracks; the train's brakes are believed to have been applied and the horn to have sounded. Two people are flown by helicopter to area trauma centres–one was in critical condition, and a 91-year-old woman dies later at Allegheny General Hospital. Ten others, including the bus driver, are also hospitalised.[190]
1 killed) 24 October 2013 – United States – One person dies when four freight cars loaded with gravel derail at the SunRail station on State Road 46 in Sanford, Florida.[226]
3 killed) 30 November 2013 – United States – Southwestern Railroad (New Mexico) train derails outside Silver City, New Mexico, resulting in the death of the conductor Steven "Steve" Crose, 60, engineer Donald "D.A." White, 38, and ride-along passenger Ann Thompson, 50. The train is leaving a mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold on a 6% slope when it experiences braking failure. Traveling out of control for miles, the locomotive, which contains all three occupants, eventually leaves the track on a curve completely disconnecting from the eight cars heavily loaded with magnetite and slides into an arroyo (creek). All three occupants of the locomotive are killed immediately on impact and must be extricated from the badly damaged locomotive by emergency responders. The eight freight cars continue on the track a short distance before stopping. It is originally reported that all three occupants are male employees,[230] but a correction later specifies that the female ride-along passenger was not an employee.[231]
4 killed) December 2013 – United States – Derailment at Spuyten Duyvil, the Bronx, New York City – The engineer of a Metro-North Railroad passenger train from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal falls asleep with the train at full throttle. It enters a 30 mph (48 km/h) curve just before Spuyten Duyvil station at 82 mph (132 km/h) and derails, killing 4 and injuring 63. It is the first Metro-North accident with passenger fatalities.[232] The engineer's fatigue was caused by severe, undiagnosed sleep apnea in combination with a recent shift change.[233]
2 killed) 17 August 2014 – United States – two Union Pacific locomotives hit head on, in Hoxie, Arkansas, killing two crewmen and injuring two others. Several cars derail, resulting in a fire that causes the evacuation of 500 residents.[285]
5 killed) 3 February – United States – A Metro-North Railroad train strikes one car at a crossing near Valhalla, New York, and catches on fire, killing six people.[298] (one is car driver)
1 killed ) 24 February – United States – Oxnard train derailment: a Metrolink train hits a road vehicle at Oxnard, California.[305] The train engineer dies and 29 others are injured.
0 killed on train) 15 March – United States – A Norfolk Southern freight train crashes into a white Toyota Camry car with 4 passengers in it while it was crossing the tracks at a level crossing in Buechel, Kentucky. 2 people were killed in the crash while 2 were injured and taken to a nearby hospital. The accident was also caught on camera by two railfans.[317][318]
8 killed) 12 May – United States – Amtrak passenger train Northeast Regional Train 188, en route from Washington, D.C. to New York City and carrying an estimated 238 passengers and five crew, derails and partially rolls over on its side in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Port Richmond neighborhood. Out of the 243 passengers and crew on the train more than 200 are injured in the derailment,[329] with a confirmation of 8 deaths. With the current death toll of 8, as of Thursday, May 14, 2015, this is the U.S.'s deadliest train incident in almost six
years.[330][331]
0 killed on train) 14 November – United States – A freight train collided with a Toyota Camry in North Carolina, killing the two elderly passengers of the vehicle.[358]
2 killed) 3 April – United States – 2016 Chester, Pennsylvania train derailment: Two people died, and thirty-one suffered injuries, when an Amtrak train collided with a backhoe on the tracks and a car derailed in Chester, near Philadelphia[375]
35 + 25 (from 2008) = 60. You made it. But you have to admit that is still well under China.
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