BNSF Railway freight train collides head-on with a Metrolink train in Placentia, California, near the Atwood Junction, at the intersection of Orangethorpe Avenue and Van Buren Street. 2 people died in the crash and 22 were seriously injured.

Two BNSF freight trains collide head-on near Gunter, Texas. The train engineer of the southbound train was killed.

A westbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train collides with the middle of an eastbound BNSF freight that was entering a siding at Macdona, Texas. Several cars on both trains and the four UP locomotives were derailed; one of the derailed tank cars was punctured, releasing liquefied chlorine which vaporized into a cloud. Three people died from chlorine inhalation.

A rail grinder working westbound on the Union Pacific Railroad mainline sideswipes an eastbound BNSF Railway intermodal train at Rochelle, Illinois; the trains do not derail but a few containers are destroyed. The entire event is recorded on the Trains Magazine Rochelle webcam.

Two BNSF Railway freight trains collide head-on in Madera, California, due to one of the trains running a red signal, injuring 5 people. One of the train's crew members, the one that ran the red, is suspected to be high on cocaine. There was a camera on board one of the locomotives involved in the collision; the video of the collision is widely available on YouTube and related sites. During the footage, the southbound train's engineer was seen jumping clear of the locomotive immediately before the collision.

A BNSF coal train entered an open switch on a spur track which had accidentally failed to be realigned, and collided with a stationary train. Both crewmen received minor injuries. Like the Kismet collision, it too was captured on video.

A switch helper riding a covered hopper on a train that he was remotely controlling during a switching move in Mormon Yard in Stockton, California, is killed when the covered hopper strikes a tank car that was blocking a crossing of two tracks.

Two BNSF Railway trains derail in Clara City, Minnesota, causing a hydrochloric acid spill that prompts the evacuation of about 350 people.

BNSF Railway Dash 9-44CW 981 strikes a truck, causing 3 locomotives to derail 5 miles north of Marysville, Washington.

An eastbound Metrolink train scrapes the side at the rear of a BNSF freight train that is entering a siding near Rialto, California. Neither train derails, and only minor injuries to the crew and passengers of the Metrolink train are reported.