Sentence examples for serious derailment from inspiring English sources

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.

No. 851 Sir Walter Raleighwas involved in a serious derailment at Byfleet in December 1946, due to the poor condition of the permanent way.

Several minor derailments of members of the class culminated in the serious derailment of No. A800 River Cray at Sevenoaks, Kent, in August 1927, caused by a combination of a surge in the water tanks and the flanges of the locomotive's lead driving wheels mounting the rail at speed due to poor quality track-work.

HS2, the contentious rail project that will offer a high speed link from London to cities in the north of England, has been forced to deny claims that its trains are at serious risk of derailment when travelling at top speed.

However, if this situation of null lateral stiffness prevails along a certain distance, the vehicle may be in serious risk of derailment.

The small number of failures of axles in service, coupled with the serious consequences of derailment at high speed, imposes the need for very expensive, but ineffectual, inspections of axles for cracks.

A1 Warning on Subway Safety The M.T.A.'s inspector general said several subway lines were "potentially in danger of experiencing a train collision, derailment or serious delays" because supervisors had failed to make hundreds of inspections of signal equipment.

The inspector general of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said yesterday that several subway lines were "potentially in danger of experiencing a train collision, derailment or serious delays" because supervisors failed to make hundreds of inspections of signal equipment.

Lateral collisions between heavy road vehicles and passenger trains at level crossings and the associated derailments are serious safety issues.

Since 2003, Metrolink has had four serious accidents, including three derailments, involving trains with cab cars in front.

City officials have said that the longer the tracks go without a full restoration, the greater chance for a derailment and for other serious service interruptions.