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An Amtrak train hit and killed a teenager as she was on her way to school, after which service was suspended for some time in the Baltimore area as an investigation searched for caused of the accident. The incident delayed trains all along the US Northeast corridor. The victim has been reportedly identified as 14-year-old Ann Marie Stickle of Middle River. Reports say she had been walking along the tracks with a friend when she was hit from behind. The…

While walking on railroad tracks near their school, two teenagers were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Delaware County yesterday morning. The girls, reported as at Interboro Senior High School students Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart, from Glenolden, were supposed to be in class at the time of the 10:30 incident. A third girl was with them when the accident occurred, reports say. She was uninjured. The incident happened on a cold morning amid the snow of a…

An experienced British diver drowned last week during deep water training at a scuba diving center that has already been the scene of numerous fatalities. The diver, whose name has not been released, reportedly had trouble in an exercise meant to improve deep diving skills at the British National Diving Center in Leicestershire. Four other divers also risked decompression sickness by bringing the diver to the surface at a speed that could have been fatal to them, reports say. Even…

Two people died in a Washington D.C. bus accident on a company-sponsored outing when the open-air sightseeing bus narrowly cleared an overpass, but the two passengers struck the 11th Street overpass. Joshua Stoll, 24, and Michael Feiock, 35, who recently moved to the area, were with co-workers on a Friday night when the company bus left RFK Stadium to watch the Washington Nationals take on the Houston Astros recently. The bus passed safely under at least one overpass near the…

An early-morning accident has left one man dead and another hospitalized in Central Austin. Reports say an Austin patrol officer came upon the accident just after 2:15 a.m. Monday, finding a car that had crashed into a light pole on Riverside, near I-35. Although both the driver of the car driver and its passenger were both taken to University Medical Center at Brackenridge, the passenger reportedly did not make it, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Both men had…