National Transportation Safety Board

A Norfolk Southern crewman was killed while making a trackside inspection of a passing train. 

A Texas jury has handed down a roughly $44 million nuclear verdict, most of which will hit carrier New Prime.

Following a report blaming distracted driving for a fatal crash, the NTSB recommends that trucks be required to come equipped with additional safety systems.

Trucks parked illegally on an Illinois exit ramp contributed to a deadly 2023 crash, according to the nation’s top safety watchdog.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report for its investigation into a deadly semitruck crash on Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, last month.

An incorrect check valve led to the shipboard fire that killed two and injured one at Port Houston in 2024, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

FMCSA has been told to strengthen ELD requirements after a fatigued truck driver was found to be the probable cause of a 2022 crash that killed three people.

In the wake of the Baltimore bridge collapse, NTSB Chief Jennifer Homendy wants states to start testing their bridges to prevent similar catastrophes.

Federal regulators have updated Congress on an FMCSA pilot program to recruit teen drivers, and the results are bleak.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants freight and passenger railroads to incorporate new technologies that boost the effectiveness of existing positive train control technologies.

Improving road safety and public health is the goal of a new push to help teen drivers learn to share the road.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said a new rule calling for passenger trains to have inward- and outward-facing image recording devices should also have applied to freight trains.

The National Transportation Safety Board will focus on CSX’s safety training of railway carmen as the agency continues investigating the death of a carman at a CSX yard in Ohio.

A too-cozy relationship between the trucking industry and regulators may be putting lives at risk, crash safety advocates contend.

The National Transportation Safety Board will focus on employee training methods and industry practices on clearance as it continues its investigation of an Aug. 6 conductor trainee fatality at a Maryland CSX rail yard.

The National Transportation Safety Board says more frequent track inspections could have helped prevent a fatal September 2021 Amtrak derailment that was caused by “poor track conditions.”

Two New Jersey firefighters died fighting a blaze aboard the Grimaldi car carrier Grande Costa d’Avorio at Port Newark on Wednesday night.

“There are qualified mechanical inspectors at all these points, and they were not allowed to inspect this car at any of those locations,” Jason Cox, of the Transportation Communications Union, testified at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing Friday.

NHTSA and FMCSA are proposing that all new trucks over 10,000 pounds be equipped with automatic emergency braking systems.

The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a field hearing in East Palestine, Ohio, to garner more information on why the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train happened.