More than nine times a week, a tractor-trailer and a train collide, and there are many more near-hits than collisions. Every three hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. Trains can ...

Safety features are being added at a Penn Township railroad crossing where trucks and Norfolk Southern freight trains collided in separate incidents one week apart in June.

Two Hudson Valley rail crossings deemed unsafe will receive federal funding to kickstart improvements aimed at decreasing accidents. But at least nine other rail crossings in the area have been ...