Sentence examples similar to trigger a derailment from inspiring English sources

After a Feb. 24 crash between a Metrolink train and a heavy-duty pickup truck and trailer in Oxnard, however, investigators began to suspect that a plow-like deflector or cow-catcher at the front of that train's Hyundai Rotem car may have failed, allowing wreckage to get under its wheels and triggering a derailment.

And on Jan . 7 a derailment in the Canadian province of New Brunswick near Maine triggered a fire and forced the evacuation of about 150 residents.

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.

Take a derailment in stride.

"Here we have a derailment.

"That is called a derailment".

You worry about a derailment.

A derailment here, a delay there.

It's not a derailment; it's digital Armageddon.

October 17 2000: Four people are killed in a derailment at Hatfield.

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