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June 19 – United States – Custer Creek train wreck: Milwaukee Road's Olympian plunges into Custer Creek when a 25-year-old bridge, weakened by heavy rain, collapses; 47 people killed, many victims in a tourist sleeper that is submerged in 20 feet (6 m) of water for almost 36 hours. Some bodies recovered as far as 50 miles (80 km) downstream.
On 23 December 1966 at approximately 10:00am, a 65-year-old man and his 56 year old wife from Melbourne were killed when a train travelling from Parattah to Hobart ploughed into their station wagon at the Lampton Avenue level crossing in Derwent Park. The train carried the station wagon approximately 140 m (150 yards) past the level crossing.
On 19 December 1953, five people were killed and 748 injured when a Bankstown-bound train crashed into the rear of an East Hills train at Sydenham station. A signal electrician was manipulating a failed track circuit relay, but was distracted and forgot to release the track circuit when the train passed, causing a wrong side failure and the ...
15-year-old boy killed subway surfing on J train near the Williamsburg Bridge. [461] 4 March 2023: United States – New York Died Fall 14 Teenager was spotted on top of a 5 train when he possibly slipped between two train cars near the East 180th Street station. [462] 17 May 2023: United States – New York Died Head hit structure 15
1897 Gentofte train crash June 11 – Denmark – Gentofte train crash, Denmark: An express train passed a signal at danger and collided with a stationary passenger train at Gentofte station. Forty were killed and more than 100 injured. June 11 – United Kingdom – Welshampton rail crash - eleven were killed when an excursion train derailed.
John Amos, who was best known for his roles Good Times, The Roots, and Coming to America, has died.He was 84. The Emmy nominated actor's son Kelly Christopher "K.C." Amos confirmed in a statement ...
Kawam was asleep on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn at about 7:25 a.m. on Dec. 22 when she was set ablaze allegedly by the 33-year-old Zapeta-Calil ...
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]