According to the Czech transport minister, the express train from Munich heading to Prague went through a stop signal and hit a commuter train bound for the town of Domazlice.
August 4, 2021At least four people were killed and 40 were injured when a train crashed into vehicles in central South Africa on Thursday. The train was travelling from the coastal city of Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg when the crash occurred. Video footage showed a fire blazing through at least one carriage, near an overturned truck and car. …
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January 4, 2018Emergency services have confirmed 41 people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a local train collided with the buffers at the station of Alcala de Henares, to the east of Madrid on Friday afternoon. The causes of the accident, which happened at around 4.00 p.m., are as yet unknown, but the train driver …
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December 23, 2017A packed Long Island Rail Road rush hour train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major transportation hub, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other. The front of the slow-moving train hit a bumping block as it pulled into Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, left the …
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January 5, 2017