there was a head-on collision between PKP class EN57 and a freight train with two heavy locomotives: 25 people were killed (mostly railroad workers who were returning home from work), 8 survived crew of freight train, which passed signal at danger, survived too. June 4 – Poland – Osieck rail crash: About 3.45 p.m.
The local train following should be stopped by signals, but proceeds and collides with the express 54 are killed. May 14 – South Korea – An express from Pusan (now Busan) to Seoul is stopped after hitting a motorcycle on a level crossing at Taegu (now Daegu).March 8 - Argentina - Brandsen rail disaster - Occurred when a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train, killing 34.It is the Paris RER's first fatal accident.
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January 19 – France – An RER A express train in Paris at Auber Station crashes killing one person and injuring 73 in a rear-end collision caused by the train driver misunderstanding a new signalling system installed only two days earlier. January 14 – Ghana – An express train derails between Accra and Kumasi, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 200. December 13 – Yugoslavia – A freight train fails to wait for an oncoming passenger train and collides with it head-on near Bosanska Krupa (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), killing 23 people. November 21 – Italy – Curinga train disaster: A Rome- Siracusa express train rammed into 69 cars of a freight train, and then derailed the Sicily-Rome express train, crushing four passenger cars at Curinga near Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro, killing 29 people and injuring 104. Three of eight total railroad workers killed one is critically injured but survives. November 17 – United States – Cima Hill, California: Runaway Union Pacific Railroad train loaded with ties is unable to brake and crashes into another train near Kelso, California. October 4 – USSR –: Two passenger trains collided at Tallinn main station (now in Estonia) after a departing train had passed red signal. Vlaardingen September 15 - Netherlands - A passenger train is derailed on a swing bridge at Vlaardingen, South Holland. The accident near Otłoczyn killed 67 people and injured 65. August 19 – Poland – Otłoczyn railway accident: A freight train runs through a red light and slams into a passenger train traveling from Toruń to Łódź. August 1 – Ireland – Buttevant Rail Disaster, County Cork: A train on the main Dublin – Cork line is routed by mistake into a siding and derails, leaving 18 dead and 62 injured. July 25 – Netherlands – Winsum train collision: Two trains collide on a single track between Groningen and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured. July 17 – United States – North Wales, Pennsylvania: SEPTA commuter train 472 being operated from the second car of the train collides with train number 406 stopped at North Wales station, 67 were injured, none fatally. The rail penetrated the first car of passenger train, struck and killed one passenger, and injured 17 others. July 9 – United States – Amtrak passenger train 225 was struck by a 15-foot (4.6-metre) section of rail protruding from the side of a railcar at Linden, New Jersey. May 22 – United Kingdom – A sleeper train is derailed at Prestonpans, Lothian due to a vandal placing a length of rail across the line. Three locomotive units and the caboose were destroyed. Of the nine crewmembers, two train crewmembers were killed and two were injured. April 9 – United States – Western Pacific Railroad Company westbound freight train Extra UP 3734 West (Sealand 6), had its caboose, a pusher locomotive behind the caboose, and seven freight cars derail while crossing the Industrial Parkway overpass at Hayward, California. Dense fog conditions also factored into the accident. It was determined that the engineer of the Amtrak train failed to reduce speed and comply with approach signal indications, causing the collision. April 2 – United States – Lakeview, North Carolina: Amtrak's Silver Star collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train, injuring 123. February 16 – United Kingdom – An express passenger train is derailed at Bushey, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail.
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