Timeline: US train accidents

A head-on crash in California killed two

Sixty people were injured, six critically, when a passenger train was derailed in the American state of Maryland, about 12 miles from Washington.

Other recent passenger train accidents in the United States:

• 23 April 2002: A freight train ploughs head-on into a Metrolink commuter train in Placentia, California, during the morning rush hour, killing two people and injuring about 260.

  

  Four died in Florida in April
  

• 18 April 2002: An Amtrak Auto Train derails at Crescent City, Florida, killing four and injuring more than 150

• 17 March 2001: An Amtrak train carrying 210 people from Chicago to California derails in rural southwest Iowa, killing one passenger and injuring about 90 others

• 5 February 2001: An Amtrak train collides with a freight train on the same track in Syracuse, New York, injuring 61 people

• 4 November 2000: An Amtrak train derails after hitting a truck near Moorpark, California, killing the truck driver and injuring about 30 people on the train

• 15 March 2000: An Amtrak train derails alongside a field near Carbondale, Kansas, injuring 29 passengers

• 20 September 1999: An Amtrak train hits the rear of a freight train in a rail yard in Cumberland, Maryland, injuring 37 people

• 15 March 1999: An Amtrak train hits a truck and derails near Bourbonnais, Illinois, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100

• 18 June 1998: A Chicago-bound commuter train slams into a tractor-trailer carrying large steel coils in Portage, Indiana, hurling one of the coils into a rail car, killing three passengers and injuring four others.