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According to a Metra social media post, BNSF train #1276 was traveling inbound from the western suburbs to Union Station when ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed Friday evening by an inbound Metra BNSF train at a Brookfield intersection near a suburban ...

Landsberg said, since 2017, there have been more than 500 incidents at train crossings in Illinois, 81 of them fatal. In DuPage County, there have been 28 train crossing indicents during that time ...

Savage recalled a Metra train striking a concrete truck and flames engulfing one car on May 13, 2011, in Mount Prospect. The truck driver died and 26 passengers were taken to hospitals to be treated.

A spokesperson for Metra described what was shot as the tail-end of a safety check. Metra said, earlier in the day, someone reported the crossing bar was down with no trains in sight.

National Transportation Safety Board authorities are investigating Metra's first passenger death since 2005 after a train collided with a truck Wednesday at a crossing in Clarendon Hills.

When Metra Chairman Norm Carlson was handed an incident report detailing six fatalities in the first five weeks of 2017, he realized that officials could no longer keep silent about rail deaths, th… ...

Landsberg said the crossing handles 150 trains daily, around a hundred of them Metra commuter trains. The last fatal accident at the Prospect Avenue crossing was in 2017, when a pedestrian was killed.

I was just 50 ft away from one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen Metra train hit a semi & exploded. Most of us got out of the way in time but several people did not make it ...