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On 25 October 1961, a 25-year-old man from Glenorchy was killed instantly when a Hobart bound train crashed into his car at the Wrights Avenue level crossing in Glenorchy. The man was in the process of leaving his workplace at W.A. McKay's timber yard when his car stalled on the level crossing. [229]
The Fast Mail was in another fatal accident earlier in the year of 1903. On Monday, April 13, the train left Washington at 8:00 am, en route to New Orleans. As the train approached Lexington, North Carolina, it collided with a boulder on the track, causing the train to derail and ditch, killing the engineer and fireman. The locomotive that was ...
The only passenger to be killed travelling by train in the United Kingdom that year. [24] [25] 10 March – Netherlands – During a test drive a locomotive derailed on a incompletely closed railway bridge near Warmond. One person was killed. This was the first railway accident in the Netherlands. [26]
1863 Chunky Creek Train Wreck, Hickory, Mississippi; ~75 killed plus ~25 injured.All but one of the dead were Confederate reinforcements headed for Vicksburg, with the disaster--Mississippi's deadliest rail disaster to date--further hindering the city's defenses against Union forces [12]
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently ...
Feb. 28—SYRACUSE — A Syracuse man is dead after a train versus car crash which took place just before 1 p.m. Wednesday. At 12:59 p.m., Kosciusko County 911 Emergency Dispatch Center dispatched ...
May 1 – Poland – A German express train from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) to Berlin crossing the Polish Corridor derails on a sharp curve between Swarożyn (Swaroschin) and Starogard Gdański (Preußisch Stargard), sending the locomotive and six cars 25 feet (8 m) down an embankment; 26 people are killed and 12 seriously injured ...
The train was given clearance to proceed, police say, but a derailment device was still on the tracks. Conductor dies when train car flips onto its side and hits him, Texas police say Skip to main ...