Railroads and their regulators thwart safety fixes, costing lives

By CAT MURPHY, HALEY PARSLEY, JOSEPHINE JOHNSON and MOLECULE JONGWILAI / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, University of Maryland

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the safety recommendations that emerged from accident investigations.

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