United States
- Salinas level crossing disaster – September 17, 1963 - A local bus hit by a freight train in California, at least twenty-eight people are killed and thirty-five people are injured.
- Plant City, Florida – October 1977 - 10 killed. Amtrak Passenger Train strikes pickup truck that attempted to beat train at a crossing. No injuries on the train.
- Fox River Grove level crossing accident – October 25, 1995 - 7 killed
- Bourbonnais train accident – 1999 - 11 killed
- Murray County, Georgia – March 28, 2000 - 3 killed, CSX freight train strikes a school bus at an unsignalled crossing.
- Glendale train crash – 2005 - 11 killed
- Oxnard, California 2008 – Amtrak Passenger Train strikes Truck. Truck is smashed to bits; no injuries to Truck Driver, or Train passengers.
- Canton, Michigan crash – 2009 - that killed 5 teens who were messing around by going past the railroad lights despite the flashing lights. The driver had his license suspended the day before. The car was totaled by an Amtrak train towards Chicago.
- Revere, Massachusetts – May 2008 - boy killed by "Second train coming" on MBTA.
- Detroit, Michigan – March 1, 2010 - An Amtrak train strikes a fire engine owned by the Detroit Fire Department on the city's southwest side.
- Midland train wreck – November 15, 2012 - A Union Pacific freight train collided with a flatbed truck that was part of a parade in Midland, Texas honoring veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Four veterans were killed, while none on board the train were hurt.
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