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By the time 5264 arrived at Kensington at 9:30 p.m. it was only 113 seconds behind 5262, putting both trains in grave danger. Asking the driver of 5262 to attempt to outrun the runaway would have placed the passenger-carrying train at great risk of a derailment, meaning Metrol's only option was to divert the runaway before it could collide with 5262. [11]
The Melbourne–Voyager collision, also known as the Melbourne–Voyager incident or simply the Voyager incident, was a collision between two warships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HMAS Voyager. On the evening of 10 February 1964, the two ships were performing manoeuvres off Jervis Bay.
Melbourne hit Evans amidships at 3:15 am, cutting the destroyer in two. [10] The paths taken by HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans in the minutes leading up to the collision. Melbourne stopped immediately after the collision and deployed her boats, liferafts and lifebuoys, before carefully maneuvering alongside the stern section of Evans. [11]
Consequently, Little River station released the passenger train to travel to Werribee. In darkness and heavy rain, the two trains collided head on near Little River. The two drivers and one passenger were killed. One of the drivers killed was Thomas Kitchen, who had been driving one of the trains involved in the accident at Picnic 18 months before.
[10] [1] [11] Victoria Police officers from the Critical Incident Response Team shot the driver in the right arm and also tasered him before his arrest. [ 12 ] [ 11 ] [ 1 ] A child and two adults died at the scene, [ 13 ] another man died in hospital before the end of the day, and a three-month-old baby boy died the next day in the evening. [ 14 ]
A mass stabbing resulted in the deaths of six people before the assailant was shot dead by police. [278] Industrial accident: Spotswood, Victoria: 6: 1895: Spotswood Sewer Disaster. The drilling of an underground sewer in Melbourne went too close to the Yarra River. [279] Massacre: Alligator Creek near Mackay, Queensland: 6: 1911 Nov 17
On 21 February 2017, at 8:59 am local time, a Beechcraft B200 King Air aircraft operating a charter flight, carrying a pilot and four passengers bound for King Island, crashed seconds after taking off from Essendon Airport in Melbourne, Australia. [2] [1] Four American passengers and the Australian pilot died in the crash.
The body of a 15-year-old was found on the railway tracks after they had fallen from a train while riding on the outside of it. [63] 18 May 2008: Australia – Melbourne Died Unconfirmed 20 A person climbed onto the roof of a train around 1:00 am and then at 8:30 am their body was found several stations away still on top of the roof of the train.