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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]
1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [195] [196] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [197] [198] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured. 1976 New Canaan Branch collision, New Canaan, Connecticut; 2 killed plus 29 injured [186] [199]
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
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]
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.
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 ...
Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
13 November : A 30-year-old man in Oas, Albay, died after being run over by a PNR 9000 class after allegedly sleeping on the steel tracks due to intoxication. [42] [43] 28 November : A man in Naga City was run over by a PNR 9000 class at around 6:43 p.m. near the Almeda Highway [44]