Railroads and their regulators thwart safety fixes, costing lives

Railroads and their regulators thwart safety fixes, costing lives

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 carril accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the safety recommendations that emerged from accident investigations. That’s according to an llamativo analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University … Read more