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Liam Hilton (14) was killed when he fell onto railway lines and was hit by train
One girl, aged 13, who claimed she often sits under the bridge, said: "There's a wall there but the way it is, it's like a ladder. "It's really easy to get down and then climb up and under the bridge, like Liam was doing." read more...

Matthew Strain (24) died after he drove through a stop sign and struck a concrete wall
A Port Orchard man died in a one-car accident early Wednesday morning on Glenwood Road. At about 2:15 a.m., 24-year-old Matthew Strain was driving north on Glenwood. He went through a stop sign at a "T" intersection with Lake Flora Road and ran into a concrete wall, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. read more...

Liam Gill (13) was killed when he climbed on top of a disused train and touched the overhead cable, electrocuting him
Liam and his two friends managed to sneak on to the private rail maintenance depot at around 5pm on Sunday. Investigations have revealed they probably squeezed through a gap in the fence via shrubland off Southmeade Road. The boys climbed on top of a disused train, but as they came close to an overhead cable, the 25,000-volt electricity arced, electrocuting Liam who died at the scene. read more...

Lewis Moss (16) died two weeks after he suffered serious head injuries at a rugby training session
A teenager who suffered serious head injuries during a rugby training session at a Toowoomba high school nearly a fortnight ago has died in hospital. read more...

Cameron Vannostrand (19) died after being stuck and killed by a train
Norman police on Monday identified the victim as 19-year-old Cameron Michael Vannostrand of Edmond. read more...

Dan Broughton (19), Sean Harris (20), Terrence Harris (21), Jessica Sadler (14), and Eddie Gross (18) were struck and killed by an Amtrak train
An Amtrak passenger train carrying about 170 people struck a car that had skirted a gate at a road crossing near Detroit on Thursday, killing all five people in the sedan, authorities said. read more...

Dariane Cameron (17) died when her SUV was struck by a train while she was attempting to cross the tracks
A Pass Christian High School student is dead after a train struck her car. Early this morning, 17-year-old Dariane Cameron was killed when a train struck her car. It happened on St. Paul Avenue at the railroad tracks in Pass Christian. read more...

Devan Pathak (17) died when he accidentally came in contact with a high-voltage line at a train station
Devan Tyler Pathak of Feasterville was tragically taken on Friday, April 17, 2009, when he accidentally came in contact with a high-voltage line at the Neshaminy Falls train station. He was 17. read more...

Soren Pedersen (29) drowned while he was training to be a river raft guide
The prospective river rafting guide who drowned in the South Fork of the American River was identified today as Soren Pedersen, 29, of San Francisco, an El Dorado County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. Pedersen was part of a group of prospective river guides learning how to navigate a stretch of whitewater... read more...

Shawn Madigan (19) died from a cardiac arrest while he was training at a Navy boot camp
Friends and family paid tribute Thursday to Shawn Patrick Madigan, of Freeport who was found dead just five days after he joined a Navy boot camp. read more...

Matthew Williams (18) died after he was apparently struck by a train while on his way home from a party
FRIENDS and family paid tribute this week to an "incredibly easy-going and fun-loving" young man who was killed at Great Chesterford Railway Station on Saturday morning. read more...

Monique Garcia (17) was hit by a train when she tripped and fell on platform
Monique Garcia, 17, was struck and killed just south of Lodi Station. read more...

Dustin Mole (33) was killed when his train derailed and crushed him.
Dustin Mole was killed in a 'freak accident' on 24 June 2009 read more...

Shawn Miller (16) was struck crossing infront of a train, while on a scooter
The 16-year-old struck and killed Thursday afternoon by a light-rail train in San Jose has been identified as Shawn Miller of Campbell. read more...

LaVonda "Nikki" King (23), Veronica DuBose (29), and seven others died in a D.C. Metro train crash
After touring the wreckage Tuesday of two Metro transit trains that crashed the day before, killing nine, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty said it was a sight that "no one should have to see." Officials said that all the wreckage has been cleared and that no other bodies have been found in what was the worst subway train accident in the history of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. read more...

Richard Caleb Stephens (15) was lying on tracks when killed by train under suspicious circumstances
When a train hit and killed a 15-year-old in Dickson County last month, everyone's first thoughts were 'tragic accident' or 'suicide.' Now, Police have arrested and charged four people in connection with the teen's death... read more...

Josh White (16) was killed by train that he didn't hear due to his MP3 player
A South Point High School student listening to a portable audio device was struck and killed by a train that he apparently never heard coming from behind him Monday afternoon. Joshua Lee Phillips, also known as Joshua Lee Phillips White, 16, of 347 Mayflower Ave., was listening to his MP3 player while walking home from school... read more...

Shawn Clark (25) killed by freight train while 'hanging out' with friends near tracks
Friends of a man who was struck and killed by a freight train Saturday night at Seattle's Carkeek Park were back sitting on the tracks again Sunday to mourn the loss of one of their own. The friends say they are in shock over his death and say they never thought a "freak accident" like that could happen... read more...

Erin Bjorklund (21) killed when struck by BNSF freight train
Erin's life came to a tragic end at 11:30 pm on Oct 3, 2008 when a 64 car freight train slammed into her body. She was 21 years old and 3 months away from graduating at Northern Arizona University. She was a stunningly beautiful, brilliant, and vibrant young lady ... read more...

UP Railroad Conductor Saxton Haselwood (26) was struck by a train while at work
A 26-year-old Union Pacific Railroad conductor was killed early Sunday when he was struck by a train. Saxton L. Haselwood, Burden, was killed shortly after 3 a.m. when he was run over by a train in the Herington railyard... read more...

Jack Mabee (17) died when the car he was in was struck & split in two by a train
A 17-year-old boy was killed and a man was critically injured Thursday afternoon when a train hit their car at a railroad crossing, splitting it in two, authorities said. The fatal collision occurred at 2:48 p.m. at the edge of a strawberry field near Victoria Avenue and Olivas Park Drive outside Ventura... read more...

Firefighter Cory Galloway (23) & another firefighter died when they fell from a ladder during training exercise
Fallen Kilgore firefighter Cory Galloway, 23, was remembered at services Friday in his vometown of Van. Galloway and fellow firefighter Kyle Perkins, of Kilgore, died last Sunday when they fell from a ladder in a training accident. read more...

Kelsie Myers (19) died when her vehicle was hit by a train after she failed to yield at a crossing
Kelsie Layne Myers, age 19, of Minot, and formerly of Crosby, passed away on Thursday, July 10, 2008, in Minot. read more...

Brannon Brady (25) and his fiance Crystal Higgins (22) killed when their car was struck by a train - their 6 day old son, Skylar, died the next day
A rural Johnston County railroad crossing where an engaged couple died in a train-car collision is scheduled to have signals and gates installed during the next year and a half, state officials said. The Friday morning crash -- at one of more than 1,000 such crossings in North Carolina with no mechanical warning devices -- killed the car's driver, Brannon Worth Brady, 25, and fiancee Crystal Lee Higgins, 22, both of 172 Herring Road in Princeton. read more...

Jacque Griffin (19) died when his pickup truck was struck by a train
A St. Charles Parish Waterworks employee was killed Tuesday after his truck was struck by a train in Paradis shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office. read more...

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