Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Kentucky Drunk Driving Crash 20 Years Ago

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 14, 2008 1:35 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Today marked the 20th Anniversary of the Kentucky Drunk Driving School Bus Accident on Interstate 71 in Carrollton. Click on the above link for a News Article and a Video. The School Bus caught on...

• Metrolink Train Collision Lawsuit

  Daryl T. Dixon | September 16, 2008 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Grieving parents of a Metrolink Train Collision Victim, Aida Magdaleno, are filing a lawsuit against the company after the operator ran a red light at 42 miles an hour, crashing into a Union Pacific...

• Kentucky Bus Crash But Without Injury

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 06, 2008 12:25 AM | 1 CommentBowling Green, KY

  There was another Kentucky Bus Crash, this time in the tiny Western Kentucky town of Kevil. But this time there were no injuries and no deaths. Late last week a Kentucky Bus Crash killed one student...

• Illinois Train Accident Ends With Death of a Man in a Wheelchair

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 13, 2008 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  An Illinois Train Accident ended in tragedy on Tuesday in Carbondale. The man was in a wheelchair when he was attempting to cross the Railroad Tracks. Authorities say that the man attempted to...

• Fiery Train Derailment Caused By Bad Bolt

  Lee Coleman | April 04, 2007 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  The CSX train derailment in Bullitt County in January was caused by a broken bolt on a freight car. The broken bolt caused the car not to steer properly and caused it to jump the track on a curve near Brooks, Ky. The freight car is owned by a CSX customer but the railroad is responsible for the maintenance and safe operation of it. The crash forced an estimated 500 people from their homes. Some...

• Train Accident Cost Clean Up To Be Steep

  Lee Coleman | February 02, 2007 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  The train derailment two weeks ago in Brooks, Kentucky still leaves about 15 families locked out of their homes. Some utilities have still not been restored such as gas and water to some of the homes and the Environmental Protection Agency says there is so much equipment it really makes it unsafe for them to return at this time. 4,500 tons of contaminated earth from around the site has been...

• Train Crash Site Cleanup Started

  Lee Coleman | January 18, 2007 1:39 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals leftover from the Tuesday CSX train crash in Bullitt County begins. CSX workers began burning it off in a controlled burn. A huge pit of 90,000 gallons of 1, 3-butadiene from three rail cars is where they started. 14 cars caught fire in the crash from the 80-car train that was headed from Louisville to Birmingham, AL. Around 500 people were evacuated some...

• Man Dead After Boat Crash

  Daryl T. Dixon | September 15, 2008 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  One man is dead and another, injured, after a boat wreck on Lake Cumberland. The man’s name was not immediately released, but he was reported to be from Indianapolis. He was pronounced dead...

• Kentucky Emergency Responders Need Greater Protection

  Daryl T. Dixon | August 13, 2008 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich recently signed Shibs Law. This allows for greater protection for Emergency Responders in Illinois. The bill honored fallen Firerfighter James "Shib" Miller. I...

• Families Still Displaced 6 Weeks After CSX Train Wreck

  Lee Coleman | February 26, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Six weeks later after the train derailment in Brooks, KY, more than a dozen families are still not in their homes. Some say they aren't going back. Some wonder what the appraisal of their homes will be as no one else wants to move there either. Families living in hotels, it's become the normal for fast food since there is no kitchens for some. Children missing the privacy of their own rooms....