Federal funding made available to reduce vehicle crashes at dangerous railroad crossings
OMAHA, Neb. — With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in
OMAHA, Neb. — With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in
DETROIT — The U.S. government agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile safety defects, limiting its ability to handle rapidly
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s auto safety agency plans to require that all new passenger cars and light trucks include potentially life-saving automatic emergency braking
TOYKO — German truck maker Daimler and Japan’s top automaker Toyota said Tuesday they will work together on new technologies, including using hydrogen fuel, to
DETROIT — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that the automatic emergency braking on big Freightliner semis can stop the trucks unexpectedly
WASHINGTON — It’s among the world’s busiest container shipping routes — a stream of vessels packed with furniture, automobiles, clothing and other goods, traversing the
GILBERT, S.C. — A school bus collided with a tanker truck Thursday, May 25, in South Carolina, sending at least 18 people, mostly children, to
WASHINGTON — Contentious labor negotiations now underway at UPS could become vastly more disruptive than the last time it happened in 1997. UPS delivers millions
WASHINGTON — Police have arrested a Missouri man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the
ST. IGNACE, Mich. — A crane being towed on a barge hit the main span of the Mackinac Bridge, although an official says inspectors found
ALBANY, Ore. — The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically
ALBANY, Ore. — The driver of a semitruck that slammed into a passenger van on Interstate 5 in western Oregon, killing 7 people in one
ALBANY, Ore. — Authorities were investigating one of Oregon’s deadliest crashes in recent years on Friday, May 19, a day after seven adults were killed
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Driven by a “personal vendetta” against a toll bridge company, Alabama’s transportation director planned to build an unnecessary bridge across the Intracoastal
ALBANY, Ore. — Seven people were killed and multiple others hurt in a crash involving several vehicles on Thursday, May 18, along Interstate 5 in
MEXICO CITY — A fiery highway crash involving a passenger van and a freight truck killed 26 people in northern Mexico on Sunday, May 14,
WASHINGTON — Tesla shouldn’t be calling its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can’t drive themselves, the top U.S. transportation official says. Transportation
YANKTON, S.D. — Two people were killed and a third person was critically injured Wednesday after a South Dakota police chase at speeds over 100
DIVERNON, Ill. — Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of
DIVERNON, Ill. — A windstorm in southern Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm fields on Monday, May 1, causing numerous crashes