All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2013 // All Risks’ Workers Compensation Division has launched it’s third specialty class, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated market. This WC unit has direct...
Sep 3 2013 // Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two...
Aug 20 2013 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, handling the most accident investigations since the 1990s, is “going to have to let some things go” if budget cuts aren’t restored, Chairman Deborah Hersman...
Jul 31 2013 // The Obama administration has delayed by nearly a year a plan to boost safety standards for the type of rail car involved in a fiery explosion that killed at least 47 people in Canada this month.Officials began work on the...
Jul 31 2013 // National Interstate Corp., the insurer majority owned by American Financial Group Inc., plunged the most since 2008 after reserves for claims in prior periods proved inadequate, fueling a surprise quarterly loss.National...
Jul 24 2013 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board began a formal investigation into the Southwest Airlines Co. accident Monday at New York’s LaGuardia airport that injured eight and disrupted traffic.The Boeing Co....
Jul 10 2013 // The oil-laden train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town on Saturday, possibly killing as many as 50 people, included a class of railcar whose vulnerability to leaks and deadly explosions was well known to...
Jun 20 2013 // An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his life, underwent several corrective procedures in the years leading up to the crash and...
Jun 4 2013 // The investigation into the cause of a southeast Missouri cargo train crash that injured seven people and destroyed a highway overpass could take up to a year.The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. Saturday near Rockview,...
May 24 2013 // A section of a major interstate highway bridge in Washington state collapsed yesterday, sending two vehicles into the rushing waters of the Skagit River north of Seattle. Three people were rescued and no one is believed to...
May 16 2013 // The pilot and crew members aboard a cargo ship had reservations about the boat’s course shortly before it struck a bridge over the Tennessee River, but no one stepped up to check written or electronic charts against...
May 15 2013 // Transportation safety officials are exploring ways to eliminate drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation’s more than 30,000 annual traffic fatalities— a share that has remained...
Feb 28 2013 // One of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last summer, killing three workers and causing an inferno that nearly welded the locomotives together, sped past three signals warning it to slow down or...
Jan 24 2013 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is looking at issues raised by more than one whistleblower as it investigates battery failures that have grounded the global fleet of 50 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners for a...
Dec 10 2012 // Devices that record crash-related data would be required in all new cars and light trucks under a U.S. Department of Transportation proposal made on Friday to broaden their growing use in the United States.The proposed...
Sep 27 2012 // Federal investigators have concluded that pilot error caused the collision of a chemical tanker with a containership in the Houston Ship Channel in October 2011. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement...
Sep 13 2012 // For two decades, one of the most commonly used type of rail tanker has been allowed to haul hazardous liquids from coast to coast even though transportation officials were aware of a dangerous design flaw that almost...
Aug 29 2012 // The World War II-era P-51 Mustang hurtled over the race course in Nevada at more than 500 mph, its skin wrinkling and canopy separating from the sheer force of the flight. A crucial tail control fluttered, its screws...
Aug 28 2012 // A highly modified vintage aircraft was pushed beyond its structural limits before it crashed into spectators at last year’s National Championship Air Races in Reno, according to the findings being presented to the...
Jul 25 2012 // The bulldozer was clearing land outside a day care center in Hapeville, Ga., when it broke open a buried 1-inch pipeline. The escaping gas ignited into a fireball that killed nine people, including seven children settling...