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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quintinshill rail crash
		The Quintinshill rail crash occurred on 22 May 1915, at Quintinshill, an intermediate block station on a double line with refuge loops on the Caledonian Railway near Gretna Green in Scotland.
		The accident is not well known because the majority of victims were soldiers and it occurred during World War I, when all news was subject to official censorship.
		The Hawes Junction rail crash of 1910 also involved a busy signalman forgetting about a train on the main line, but because the signalman there was fully focused on his job, his momentary lapse was more excusable.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Quintinshill_rail_crash (1280 words)

	List of British rail accidents by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This lists railway accidents in Britain sorted by death toll.
		It is complete for accidents causing 25 or more deaths and selective for less.
		List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_rail_accidents_by_death_toll (683 words)

	The Silent Menace: Landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Of the 422 people listed as killed or injured by mines between 15 December 1995 and 31 July 1997, 330 (78.1%) were civilians, 68 (16.1%) were soldiers and 24 (5.7%) were of unknown status.
		Although it is difficult to know precisely how many deaths have been caused by mines, the statistics do suggest that the toll is considerably lower than for other mine-affected countries, where it is assumed that roughly one person dies for every person who reaches a hospital.
		Deaths and injuries due to landmines are therefore expected to rise.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList226/560D02292D73B901C1256B66005B6FC6 (16070 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of rail accidents
		October 17, 2000 – Hatfield rail crash, England, United Kingdom: As the London-Leeds express passes at 115 mph (185 km/h), a faulty rail shatters into 300 pieces because of a condition known as rolling contact fatigue.
		The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the accident was caused by a hot-weather "sun kink" misalignment of the track due to inadequate CSX maintenance-of-way, and stated that equipment and track damages totaled about $8.3 million.
		October 29, 2005 – Veligonda rail disaster, Veligonda, Andhra Pradesh, India: At least 114 are killed and many more are injured when part of the track is swept away by a flood, causing a train to derail.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents (5517 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - World - Britain Investigates Another Rail Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rail authorities believe Friday's accident at the suburban station, about 20 kilometers north of London, was caused when the train passed over a faulty set of points - a switching mechanism that diverts trains onto different tracks.
		Rail authorities believe that nuts securing one set of points became detached, causing the points to move as the train passed over them.
		The Mirror newspaper quoted rail union bosses as saying that workers had raised repeated concerns about track problems in the area only a few miles away from Hatfield, the scene of another fatal derailment in 2000, which was caused by a broken rail.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/7121 (739 words)

	Niagara Falls
		In 1764, the British built a mechanized tramway which was known as "the cradles" to further assist movements of boats, supplies and arms to the top of the escarpment.
		The British and their loyalists were expelled from American territory and would risk severe penalty or death if they tried to return to their previous homes.
		Despite British victories at Chateauguay and at Cryslers farm which ended the American threats of occupying Montreal and Quebec, the American navy battled the British navy at the River Thames and were victorious.
	www.iaw.com /~falls/work.html (15257 words)

	Railroad Accidents — Infoplease.com
		It is nation's worst train accident since WWII.Crash may have been caused by a defective wheel.
		The accident was allegedly caused by the driver trying to get the train back on schedule and approached a curve at excessive speeds.
		Report blows the whistle on lax federal oversight of railroad accidents.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001450.html (1125 words)

	Accidents
		Accidents can be as minor as small spills or releases to major incidents that require evacuation, personal injury or death.
		Sulphur dioxide was accidentally accidentally released into the air and the gas seeped into Paulsboro High School during first period, causing headaches, feelings of nausea and some instances of vomiting in as many as 15 students and a handful of faculty members.
		Residents kept on thronging to accident spot since morning and were told by the authorities of the hazards that the acid could pose.
	www.sulphuric-acid.com /TechManual/Plant_Safety/safety_accidents.htm (13835 words)

	Dr. Death's Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Death is a social Darwinist Malthusian who believes in the virtues of eugenics, a movement characterized by forced sterilization in the US, fueled by Carnegie and Rockefeller funding, and responsible for the birth of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
		Death and his drooling disciples should not be allowed to incite genocide and promote Nazi models of eugenics without encountering resistance.
		Moves by British parliamentarians and bills such as one in New Jersey calling for the outright banning of aspartame in all foods should be supported and this poison-peddling industry shut down.
	www.fathers.ca /dr__death's_terrorism.htm (15277 words)

	Top news from around the world
		British sailors not to peddle stories (UPI / 5:40PM PDT on 04/09) LONDON, April 9 (UPI) -- Britain's Ministry of Defense has put a ban on military personnel selling their stories to the media until the rules surrounding the issue are reviewed.
		Female British sailor feared rape (UPI / 7:53AM PDT on 04/09) LONDON, April 9 (UPI) -- The only woman among the 15 British naval personnel held captive by Iran says her first impulse was to hide the fact she was female out of fear of being raped.
		British Sailors, Marines Land in London (DANICA KIRKA, AP / 6:00AM PDT on 04/05) LONDON (AP) -- A British navy crew returned home Thursday from Iranian captivity to the relief of a nation, after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced their surprise release and ended the two-week crisis.
	www.promedia.net /webnews/listall/world.top.html (11614 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Though adults are sometimes burned or killed when their night clothes catch fire and though sometimes such accidents are due to their own carelessness or inattention, the federal government does not insist on the expense of a requirement to treat their garments with fire-retardant substances.
		It is always easy for the living to use a tragic death to generate publicity about the sanctity of life and the waste of a wonderful, contributing human being, whose momentary carelessness or pure bad luck resulted in death in a traffic or train accident, regardless of whether the person is blind or sighted.
		Schneider's accident to make her point--a competent, productive mother died; and despite this tragedy, money-grubbing transit officials, unfeeling governmental bureaucrats, and blind people eager to sell their souls for a mess of social-acceptability pottage are uniting to insure that more blind people will needlessly die.
	www.nfbnet.org /files/braille_monitor/BRLM9312.TXT (22133 words)

	SUVs dominate dangerous vehicles list - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com
		A terrible accident in Colorado: Mother and child are thrown from an SUV as it skids and rolls down a grassy median.
		Several are on the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's latest list of vehicles with the highest death rates.
		Several SUVs are on the list of vehicles with the lowest death rates, including the Toyota 4Runner, the Toyota RAV4 and the Lexus RX-300.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/7200451 (536 words)

	Over 300 feared killed in Indian train disaster
		But the death toll is likely to go up as 50 more people are believed to be trapped in the remaining wreckage.
		Air and motor traffic accidents have increased in recent years with changed economic activity, because the successive governments were not providing investment to improve the infrastructure.
		Appointing committees for "investigations", giving compensation for victims and terming the cause of accident as a "human error" are nothing but face-saving rituals and an attempt to seek scapegoats in order to cover up the reasons behind the tragedy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/aug1999/rail-a04.shtml (1478 words)

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		His family claimed that his death was a direct result of his working at the reactor, and filed a lawsuit against the National Insurance Institute.
		It's no accident that, at least before the rationales began to multiply, the administration built its case for war against Iraq based on Saddam's WMD program-and the oft-cited image of the mushroom cloud.
		But the more relevant connection is an accident of geography and a shared dream: that the thawing of the Arctic Ocean would help create the so-called Arctic Bridge, a shipping route with their ports as the logical terminals.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2005nn/0510nn/051010nn.txt (17134 words)

	Kaumudi Online - Offline Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A disease had caused the death of around 2000 migratory birds, who are known to come to the Chilka from far-off places like Siberia, the Himalayas, Iran and Afghanistan to escape the bitter cold in those places, in the blue lagoon last winter.
		However, no death was caused by the much-feared bird flu in the state, the sources said.
		The toll from the fighting was confirmed by two Bandiradley residents, Mohamed Abdulahi and Ali Idris, who added that Qeybdiid's men had lost seven machine gun-mounted pick-ups and two aging tanks in the battle.
	www.kaumudi.com /news/111306/x_headlines.stm (14601 words)

	Bosnia-Herzegovina
		This unbalance was complicated by an unexpected rail strike in neighboring France, which restricted the availability of railcars that were needed to transport major equipment items and bulk supplies.
		Thus, the French forces shifted to the south, the British forces shifted to the west, the Russian and Turkish forces remained in the northeast area of Bosnia under the jurisdiction of the MND (N).
		It is not possible to list every available source, and neither is it even possible to cite all the better ones available to the general public.
	www.army.mil /cmh/brochures/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Bosnia-Herzegovina.htm (11508 words)

	Archive -- Weekly News Update, Mohawk & Hudson Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The new service is one of several planned rail service expansions announced by Amtrak earlier this year and is the first new rail passenger route in several decades in Wisconsin, whose governor, Tommy Thompson, is chairman of Amtrak's Board of Directors.
		Weekly Rail Recap is edited from news sources and published weekly, usually on Sunday, to the railroad industry and those interested in it.
		Both rail plant owner Railtrack and Britain's Health and Safety Executive have launched investigations to determine the cause of the accident, which was still undetermined at press time.
	family.knick.net /railroad/text/news_arc.htm (12310 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		I suspect the increased numbers of train accidents (if this is statistically correct) have a lot of causes, especially since the cases you cite occurred in different countries and even different continents.
		Numerous small accidents were bracketed by a series of high profile crashes, almost all due to collapsing infrastructure, finally forced the companies to act.
		There have been several rail accidents here recently, mostly on fairly minor lines, due either to human-factor or poor maintenance snarlups or to freak accidents such as a vehicle from a motorway overpass or parallel road going out of control and landing on the tracks in front of a train!
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/10/17/104751/55 (4916 words)

	The Railways Archive :: The Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry: Part 1 Report
		The death and injury toll was exacerbated by the fire which broke out when the HST diesel fuel ignited.
		Report on the Accident that occurred on 25th June 1964 at Nantwich Station Level Crossing in the Lon...
		British Transport Police (BTP) are to base an officer in Alloa to police the new Stirling-Alloa-Kinc...
	www.railwaysarchive.co.uk /docSummary.php?docID=38 (607 words)

	Tipi Stove Corporation-Camping, Survival and RV Cooking Equipment
		A freak accident in Harrisburg, PA occurred when a crane touched a powerline, and the current grounded through a natural gas line, causing a leak in the pipe and subsequent explosion.
		He said that the nation would be shocked at the final death toll, and that hazardous materials were mixing with the floodwaters.
		A construction worker accidentally cut an oil pipeline, triggering a massive explosion that caught a nearby vacant house on fire, causing the adjacent highway to be closed and a local family to evacuate.
	www.tipistove.com /disasterlist2005.htm (12052 words)

	Subject Listing for Air transportation
		It draws on the experience of airport and rail operators, and is designed to be of practical value to operators as well as regional planners, airlines, and other service providers or users.
		The Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission was established to investigate the causes of aircraft and railway accidents from the viewpoint of a fair and impartial stance, and help to prevent accidents.
		The Office of Accident Investigation (AAI) is the principal organisation within the FAA with respect to aircraft accident investigation and all activities related to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
	aerade.cranfield.ac.uk /subject-listing/tran.html (14415 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Babylon is damaged by coalition troops
		The report by John Curtis, keeper of the British Museum's Near East department, notes that dragons at the Ishtar Gate were marred by cracks and gaps where someone tried to remove their decorative bricks.
		The report by John Curtis, keeper of the British Museum's Near East department, notes that dragons at the Ishtar Gate were marred by cracks and gaps where someone tried to remove their decorative bricks More details...
		Eighteen people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in thick fog in northern Italy, rescuers said, in the country's worst rail accident in 25 years More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2005/01/16/57867.html (1599 words)

	Safety alarm over unreliable rail phones - National - smh.com.au
		TELEPHONES installed in the city's underground rail network for emergency use in a fire or terrorist attack have been found to dial wrong numbers, make phantom calls and fail to ring.
		The Rail, Tram and Bus Union's president, Nick Lewocki, said Sydney's rail safety depended on a quick, reliable phone connection between the tunnels and the management centre.
		Among the list of options in the document was to "do nothing" and continue high-level maintenance.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/safety-alarm-over-unreliable-rail-phones/2006/05/05/1146335930365.html (667 words)

	Danger Ahead! - Historic Railway Accidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Derail is an unprecedented analysis of many of the most dramatic, bizarre and terrifying rail accidents over the past 150 years.
		The accidents in Norway on 4 January, 2000 and at Paddington on 5 October 1999 have produced a new fear, especially to accident watchers in Britain and on the Continent, which is the emergence of FIRE.
		Holland's worst-ever rail accident occurred on a foggy morning in the middle of the winter of 1962.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net (378 words)

	Law.com - The Plaintiffs' Hot List
		A jury awarded the plaintiffs $1 billion in a wrongful death involving Pondimin, a part of fen-phen.
		Founded before World War II by the father and uncle of the twin brothers who now run it, virtually all the firm's cases are in the New York City metropolitan area.
		Sears was found liable for the negligence of its tire technicians, whose failure to change a defective tire on the plaintiff's truck caused an accident that killed four people.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180289081 (3648 words)

	Workers World Oct. 21, 1999: British train drivers demand better safety
		ASLEF general secretary Mike Rix made the announcement at a press conference as the full death toll in the rail catastrophe is still not known.
		There was a near collision at exactly the same point last year and there have been several incidents of trains going past that signal when it has been at red over the past three years.
		The inquiry after the Clapham rail crash over a decade ago recommended this system be fitted to all British Rail trains.
	www.workers.org /ww/1999/ukwreck1021.php (755 words)

	A scripture blog
		If Judas' death was indeed by his own hand, it would have had a cause that the traditional story obscures.
		With his background he draws a lot of firemen and policemen to his church, and he is the Chaplain for all local police departments, which means he is called to minister to survivors and relatives whenever serious accidents have occurred.
		So the Heavenly destination of the good guys who have lived between the Fall and the Day of Judgment is presumably a reward for their great virtue, not something that keeps on happening forever and ever.
	constitutionalistnc.tripod.com /scrmar05.html (14723 words)

	Why Terrorism and not Car Accidents? (The Fourth Rail) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Basra's chief of police said the EFP that killed 4 British soldiers appears to be Iranian made.
		Traffic accidents are just that, accidents, that are part of the risk of driving, and laws, safety regulation or education will not eradicate this problem, only reduce its impact.
		World War II and the subsequent deaths of over 50 million people was the result of failing to stand up to the evil of fascism, the result of appeasing a bloodthirsty enemy with no regards for treaties, international law, or the sanctity of life.
	www.billroggio.com /archives/2004/08/why_terrorism_a.php (3204 words)

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