More than nine times a week, a tractor-trailer and a train collide, and there are many more near-hits than collisions. Every three hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. Trains can ...

Brian Owens’ hardest days at work are the ones where he speaks with the emergency workers who are first on the scene when a multi-ton train and a human body collide. “Generally, you’re picking up ...

Semi truck hit by train during a snowstorm in Gastonia, NC, raising local concerns about railroad crossing safety.