Timeline: US train accidents

The recent history of major train accidents in the US:

26 January 2005: Nine people die and about 100 are hurt in a rush-hour collision involving three trains in Los Angeles.

6 May 2003: An Amtrak train hits a lorry in Georgia, killing its driver and injuring 27 passengers.

Four people died when an Amtrak train derailed in Florida in 2002

6 January 2003: A Metrolink train in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank strikes a lorry, killing its driver and injuring at least 30 passengers.

29 July 2002: At least 60 people are injured, six critically, when a passenger train is derailed in the US state of Maryland.

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.

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 south-west 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 lorry near Moorpark, California, killing the lorry driver and injuring about 30 people on the train.

15 March 2000: An Amtrak train derails 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 lorry 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.