Canadian Underwriter

Container freight train accident
News Insurance

Man killed in Saskatchewan train car accident

May 27, 2022 The Canadian Press

EDGELEY, Sask. – A Saskatchewan man is dead after the road maintenance vehicle he was driving collided with a train on Thursday afternoon. It happened about three kilometres west of Edgeley, Sask. at a level crossing around 12 p.m. Thursday

CP train derailment near Field, B.C. on Feb. 4, 2019
News Insurance

Defendants deny claims of wrongdoing in fatal B.C. train derailment lawsuits

April 7, 2022 Alanna Smith - THE CANADIAN PRESS

Defendants in lawsuits filed by families who lost loved ones in a British Columbia train derailment are denying any wrongdoing in the deaths of three Canadian Pacific Railway employees.   The derailment happened on Feb. 4, 2019, when 99 grain cars

Train derailment near Field, B.C. on Feb. 4, 2019
News Insurance

TSB says brake failure, cold weather led to deadly train derailment

March 31, 2022 The Canadian Press

CALGARY – An investigation into a fatal train derailment near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary has found the locomotive’s brakes failed with prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada on Thursday released its findings into the February

News Insurance

Off the rails again: Ottawa’s troublesome trains keep jumping the tracks

October 4, 2021 Laura Osman - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – The gravel strewn across the bike path was the first sign of trouble. Ottawa resident Steven Grant was out for a ride on Sept. 19 when he noticed an LRT train stopped in the middle of the tracks.

News Insurance

Track failure led to train derailment in northern B.C.: safety board

November 5, 2020 The Canadian Press

RICHMOND, B.C. – The Transportation Safety Board says a track failure contributed to the derailment of a freight train in northern British Columbia in January. No one was hurt when 34 cars carrying wood pellets on the Canadian National Railway

News Claims

Freight train involved in fatal derailment started on its own: TSB

February 6, 2019 Lauren Krugel - THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY –  A Canadian Pacific freight train parked on a frigid night in the Rocky Mountains began to move on its own before a derailment that killed three workers and sent 99 grain cars and two locomotives hurling off the

News ClaimsRisk

Dozens of freight cars derail in fatal train accident

February 5, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS

FIELD, B.C. – A Canadian Pacific freight train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary in a derailment that killed three crew members, a union representative said Monday. The westbound freight jumped the tracks

News ClaimsMarkets / Coverages

Diesel fuel leaks into river after fatal train derailment

September 20, 2018 The Canadian Press

WINNIPEG – A train that derailed in northern Manitoba on Saturday that killed a railway worker is leaking diesel fuel into the Metishto River. Manitoba Sustainable Development says the fuel is from one of the locomotives. The province says spill