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The 45th car in the train derails such that it blocks the parallel second main track, into which an eastbound BNSF oil train collides. Dash 9-44CW 4934 strikes the car and almost 500,000 gallons of crude oil are released from the oil train; the oil catches fire, forcing the evacuation of 1,400 nearby residents. [27] [28]
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]
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.
101 bodies yet to be identified and 200 injured receiving treatment, officials say. 06:08, Shweta Sharma. A top railway official has said 101 dead bodies are yet to be identified and out of 1,100 ...
The huge crash in June caused the engine and the first four or five coaches of the Coromandel Express to jump the tracks, topple and hit the last two coaches of the Yeshvantpur-Howrah train ...
Railways officials suspect ‘deliberate interference’ behind deadliest train crash this century Odisha train accident – live: Death toll rises again as unclaimed bodies ‘to be embalmed ...
February 24 – United States – Waverly tank car explosion, Waverly, Tennessee: A Louisville and Nashville Railroad freight train derailed; one tank car containing liquefied petroleum gas exploded two days later, killing 16 people and injuring 43. Numerous buildings in downtown Waverly were destroyed or damaged by the blast and resulting fires.
Passengers were stunned on Sunday when a train arrived at a crowded platform with a body plastered to the front end of the train. Police say the man was a cyclist and aren't sure if he died by ...