A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia. 2015 Philadelphia train derailment: On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C., bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of the 238 passengers and five crew on board, eight were killed and over 200 were injured, with 11 critically so. The train was traveling at 102 miles per hour (164 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone of curved tracks when it derailed. The wreck was the deadliest on the Northeast Corridor since 1987, when 16 people died in a crash near Baltimore. May 12, 2015. Wiki link