Sentence examples for a derailment in from inspiring English sources

On Aug. 24, 1928, a derailment in Times Square killed 16.

After working for more than a decade as a home health aide, Tolentino Gonzalez faced a derailment in his livelihood and self-worth last May.

The railroad administration completed a similar review of Metro-North Railroad in New York after a derailment in 2013 killed four passengers and injured more than 70 people.

Stubborn rail switches froze, stalling subways in the city and commuter trains in the suburbs and contributing to a derailment in New Jersey.

The acceleration has come despite a derailment in the lakeside Quebec town of Lac-Megantic in July, in which a runaway oil train bound for a refinery in eastern Canada exploded, killing dozens of people and bankrupting the railway company.

Passenger rail services in Britain and much of western Europe have for many years had automatic safety systems that warn train drivers if they are speeding and then trigger the brakes to prevent the kind of crash that killed eight and injured more than 200 in a derailment in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

The crash comes almost a year after a major derailment in May 2015, in which an Amtrak train originating from Washington DC and bound for New York City derailed in Philadelphia.

My right knee was split almost directly down the middle, and I suffered an acetabular fracture of the right hip — a serious derailment, in other words — and an open femoral intertrochanteric fracture in the same area.

After being severely damaged in a derailment near Peterborough in 1974, locomotive 47046 was selected to be a testbed for the projected Class 56, and was fitted with a 16-cylinder Ruston 16RK3CT engine rated at 3250 bhp for assessment purposes.

Federal authorities said on Monday they are unsure anything struck the windshield of an Amtrak train minutes before a deadly derailment in Philadelphia last week, adding another twist to the investigation the day trains started running to New York again.

A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars "inadequate" and found that it "made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials".