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 ...

Landsberg said, since 2017, there have been more than 500 incidents at train crossings in Illinois, 81 of them fatal. In DuPage County, there have been 28 train crossing indicents during that time ...

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.

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 Im absolutely ...

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.

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.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Only on CBS 2 -- new concerns about a Mokena train crossing with a recent history of close calls. Days ago, new video surfaced showing what appeared to be another gate malfunction ...