International Business News - Collision http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A chartered bus carrying students collided with a semitrailer Wednesday night on icy roads in north-central Illinois, sending at least 18 people to the hospital, authorities said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081204/bus-carrying-students-collides-with-truck-in-ill.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:40:46 EST An autopsy shows the Metrolink engineer involved in a train collision that killed 25 people in September was not on drugs or medication before he ran a red light that could have prevented the crash in Los Angeles. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/autopsy-train-engineer-not-on-drugs-before-crash.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:20:41 EST A regional jet collided with a small vehicle on a Detroit Metropolitan Airport taxiway Thursday, damaging the airplane and injuring the vehicle driver, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/plane-collides-with-luggage-tug-at-detroit-airport.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:49 EST Two sport utility vehicles collided head-on in a fiery crash Monday in Delaware, killing a mother and four of her children and the driver of the other vehicle. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/head-on-collision-of-suvs-kills-6-in-delaware.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:19:57 EST The Coast Guard has concluded a hearing into a collision last July between a towboat and an oceangoing tanker on the Mississippi River, but the agency was not able to obtain testimony from several crucial witnesses. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/coast-guard-hearing-on-miss-river-collision-ends.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:57:37 EST North Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have identified the five people killed after their car was run over by a tanker truck in Harnett County. The crash on North Carolina Highway 27 happened Friday night roughly 20 miles south of Raleigh. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081026/troopers-name-5-killed-by-oncoming-truck-in-nc.htm Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:25:45 EDT Five people were killed in North Carolina after police say a car ran a stop sign and was run over by a tanker truck. North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Safety spokeswoman Julia Jarema says three men were killed Friday night, ages 22, 23 and 25. Jarema says two girls were also killed, ages 14 and 17. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/5-killed-in-collision-with-tanker-truck-in-nc.htm Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:37:08 EDT The Southern California Regional Rail Authority has filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to determine whether its contractor can be held responsible for the deadly collision of one of its Metrolink commuter trains and a freight train. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/rail-agency-sues-contractor-over-la-collision.htm Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:25:51 EDT The Southern California Regional Rail Authority has filed a lawsuit against a contractor stemming from the deadly collision of one of its Metrolink commuter trains and a freight train on Sept. 12. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/rail-agency-sues-contractor-over-la-collision.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:18:52 EDT Three school buses carrying 79 middle school students on a class trip collided Friday in western Connecticut, injuring 19 children. The seventh-grade students from Sage Park Middle School in Windsor were returning home from a trip to White Memorial Conservation Park. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/conn-school-buses-collide-at-least-20-kids-hurt.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:01:15 EDT An eyewitness to a collision that closed the Mississippi River for days over the summer testified that a deckhand aboard the towboat involved shouted its pilot had apparently fallen asleep at the helm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/deckhand-contradicts-pilot-in-miss-river-spill.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:35:24 EDT An improperly licensed and overworked towboat pilot said Tuesday that radar and steering lever problems led him to veer his tug into the path of a tanker along the Mississippi River, leading to a crash and oil spill that shut the major waterway for days. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/tug-pilot-testifies-in-miss-river-crash-hearing.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:45:43 EDT A vessel auditor said Monday the towing company involved in a major oil spill that shut down the Mississippi River for six days this summer had not been able to produce key safety documents before the July accident. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/auditor-towing-company-lacked-safety-documents.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:12:45 EDT Authorities say three people are injured after a small regional jet struck a maintenance truck on a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. No passengers were aboard the United Express jet, operated by SkyWest Airlines. It was traveling from a hangar to a gate with it collided with the truck early Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081018/3-injured-when-airplane-hits-maintenance-truck.htm Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:11:06 EDT A towboat was so erratic it appeared its operator "had had a stroke" as it pushed a barge into the path of a tanker before a collision that shut a major shipping waterway over the summer, the tanker's pilot testified Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/pilot-towboat-erratic-before-miss-river-spill.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:57:07 EDT A towboat was so erratic it appeared its operator "had had a stroke" as it pushed a barge into the path of a tanker before a collision that shut a major shipping waterway over the summer, the tanker's pilot testified Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/pilot-towboat-erratic-before-miss-river-spill.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:57:08 EDT Federal regulators issued an emergency order Thursday banning use of cell phones and other electronic devices by rail workers, a day after investigators said a commuter-train engineer was text messaging moments before a deadly crash last month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/railroad-regulators-issue-emergency-cell-phone-ban.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:37:56 EDT Federal regulators issued an emergency order Thursday banning use of cell phones and other electronic devices by rail workers, a day after investigators said a commuter-train engineer was text messaging moments before a deadly crash last month. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/144265-train-collision.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/train-engineer-texted-22-seconds-before-la-crash.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/train-engineer-texted-22-seconds-before-la-crash.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:16:40 EDT A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in Southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/143533-train-collision.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/train-engineer-sent-text-seconds-before-la-crash.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/train-engineer-sent-text-seconds-before-la-crash.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:53:45 EDT In the first public comments from the family of the commuter-train engineer killed in a crash that claimed 25 lives in all, the man's brother said investigators must look more closely at whether equipment problems were a factor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/relatives-of-engineer-in-crash-want-thorough-probe.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:31:43 EDT