6 June 1981 – The Bihar train derailment occurred when a train fell into the river Bagmati while crossing a bridge, killing between 300 and 800 people. It is estimated to have been one of the deadliest train accidents in India.
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On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district, in the state of Odisha in eastern India. The Coromandel Express entered the passing loop instead of the main line near Bahanaga Bazar railway station at full speed and collided with a goods train.
Faceless, Nameless and Dead by the Dozen in a Train's Cheapest Cars. In India's worst railway disaster in decades, nearly all of the 288 dead were in three crowded cars where passengers stand for long stretches.
India suffered 17,993 railway accidents in 2021, resulting in 16,431 deaths, shows the latest data from the annual 'Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India' report released by NCRB. This means that on the average, the country reported 49 railway accidents every day, causing at least 45 deaths.
1650. England – Whickham, County Durham. Two boys die when they are run over by a wagon on a wooden coal train way. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents (note the lack of accidents listed for the next 163 years) this is sometimes cited as the earliest-known railway accident.
The ministry claimed the number of accidents per million train kilometres fell to 0.03 in 2021-22, from 0.10 in 2013-14. This was way down from 2.2 in 1980 and 5.5 in 1961. That may seem like a massive improvement, said the Financial Times (FT), but railway-related deaths in India remain “staggering”.
In 2022, there were more than 1,000 train derailments in the U.S. There were at least 1,164 train derailments across the country last year, according to data from the Federal Railroad Administration. That means the country is averaging roughly three derailments per day.
The Great Train Wreck of 1918. On July 9, 1918, two passenger trains collided head-on in Nashville, Tennessee. Today, it remains the worst railroad accident in United States history. The amount of lives that the crash claimed varies based on what source is used.
William Huskisson (born March 11, 1770) was a statesman, financier and MP but he will always be remembered as the first widely-reported person in history to be fatally injured in a railway accident.
Train derailments are quite common in the U.S. The Department of Transportations' Federal Railroad Administration has reported an average of 1,475 train derailments per year between 2005-2021. Despite the relatively high number of derailments, they rarely lead to disaster.
Balasore, Odisha — Mohammad Afzal survived one of the worst train accidents in India's history, but remained in a state of high anxiety, unable to locate his friend who was in the same coach.
Compare it to other major forms of transportation – with 0.04 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, train travel is much more dangerous than airplanes' 0.01 deaths per 100 million miles.