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August 25, 1992 – Via Rail train strikes a van north of Cornwall, Ontario. Two killed; six injured. [36] August 27, 1992 – Via Rail train strikes a van north of Cornwall, Ontario. Two killed. [36] October 11, 1992 – Logging truck collides with Ontario Northland Railway passenger train near New Liskeard, Ontario. Truck driver and several ...
Tignish train crash: 21 February 1932: near Tignish, Prince Edward Island: 4: 11: A snowstorm resulted in a train getting stuck in a snow drift. Another train collided head on with the stuck train. The incident is considered PEI's worst rail accident. [50] Cataraqui automobile/train crash: 6 October 1945: Chesterville, Ontario: 6: 0
A crash on the Dschang Cliff, West Region killed 53 people after a truck illegally carrying fuel collided with a bus. [308] February 11 – United States – Icy conditions from an ice storm caused a massive 133-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, Texas, killing six people and injuring 95. February 16 – India – Sidhi bus accident.
San Francisco, California The crash occurred in 1982 in San Francisco, California when a van ran a red light and crashed into the vehicle that Janet, her husband Paul Gregor, actress Mary Martin and her manager were in. Janet died of her injuries two years thereafter in a Palm Springs, California, hospital along with pneumonia and other ailments.
Menheniot, 15 November 1897 – reconstruction of Trevido Viaduct: accident raising a heavy timber: 2 killed. [20] In 1898, a mail train was derailed near Penryn, Cornwall due to defective track and the oscillation of the locomotive hauling it. Following this accident, the 3521 Class locomotives were rebuilt as tender locomotives. [17]
A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices. LCCN 78104064. Semmens, Peter (1994). Railway Disasters of the World: Principal Passenger Train Accidents of the 20th Century. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-323-2. Trevena, Arthur (1981). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2. Redruth: Atlantic Books. ISBN 0-906899-03-6.
January 4 – Germany – An express runs into the back of a stationary train between Hanover and Wunstorf, killing 20 people and seriously injuring another 20. [31]January 22 – Canada – The locomotive engineer and the fireman of a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train are killed at Tapley, Ontario when their engine leaves the tracks pulling the baggage car and a passenger coach with it.
The final sections, from west of Cornwall to Lancaster, were opened between 1962 and 1964; [90] [92] two lanes opened to Lancaster on September 11, 1962, but the other two were not completed until July 31, 1964. The last segment, to the Ontario–Quebec border, was opened on November 10, 1964. [2]