The article What Happened Before La Grange Train Crash appeared first on La Grange Patch. LA GRANGE, IL – A truck driver ...

According to a Metra social media post, BNSF train #1276 was traveling inbound from the western suburbs to Union Station when ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed Friday evening by an inbound Metra BNSF train at a Brookfield intersection near a suburban ...

MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (WLS) -- A man trying to catch a Metra Rock Island Line train was struck and killed Friday morning in Midlothian. The horrible accident unfolded in front of a platform full of ...

Family mourns beloved matriarch who was killed in Clarendon Hills Metra train crash 02:44. CLARENDON HILLS, Ill. (CBS) --An attorney for the family of a 72-year-old woman who was killed when the ...

The train that struck the pedestrian remains halted. Another train scheduled to depart Grayslake at 10:02 a.m. will also not operate, Metra says, but passengers will be accommodated by a different ...

Landsberg said the crossing handles 150 trains daily, around a hundred of them Metra commuter trains. The last fatal accident at the Prospect Avenue crossing was in 2017, when a pedestrian was killed.

Savage recalled a Metra train striking a concrete truck and flames engulfing one car on May 13, 2011, in Mount Prospect. The truck driver died and 26 passengers were taken to hospitals to be treated.

I was just 50 ft away from one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen Metra train hit a semi & exploded. Most of us got out of the way in time but several people did not make it ...

National Transportation Safety Board authorities are investigating Metra's first passenger death since 2005 after a train collided with a truck Wednesday at a crossing in Clarendon Hills.

When Metra Chairman Norm Carlson was handed an incident report detailing six fatalities in the first five weeks of 2017, he realized that officials could no longer keep silent about rail deaths, th… ...

All inbound and outbound train movement near Hickory Creek are currently halted, and extensive delays are anticipated, according to Metra. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. WATCH HERE ...