A Metra passenger train in Bensenville struck a car on Friday that apparently slid on ice into the train tracks. Bensenville Fire Battalion Chief Larry Karp said the car slid on ice around 7:30 p.m. on Friday and came to stop between two sets of tracks. A train coming into the station clipped the car, injuring three adults inside. Karp said that those three were taken to Elmhurst Memorial Hospital with minor injuries and two other people were checked at the scene. [Chicago Sun-Times] more ›

Investigations are still ongoing in Friday's Amtrak crash, but preliminary reports indicate that the train was going 25 mph faster than it was supposed to be. (The video is a lot less exciting than we were hoping for.) The Amtrak train's engineer told investigators he realized the speed limit was 15 mph in that stretch of track but accelerated to 40 mph anyway, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters Sunday. The... more ›