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List of rail accidents from 2000 to the present.

The list includes some terrorist bombings.

For historic accidents before 1950, see List of pre-1950 rail accidents. For historic accidents between 1950 and 1999 (inclusive), see List of 1950-1999 rail accidents.

Notable historic train accidents, 2000 - present
2000s:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
See also — External links — References

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2000

January 4, 2000 – Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two passenger trains collide on Rørosbanen killing 19 people. The fire after the collision of the two diesel powered trains lasted nearly 6 hours.
February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: An express night train from Amsterdam, Holland to Basel, Switzerland on the mainline between Köln and Bonn passes a construction area at excess speed and derails at Brühl station, crashing into a nearby house. 9 die.
March 2, 2000 – Kølkær, Denmark: Two regional trains collide frontally after one passes a red signal. 3 die and 39 are injured.
March 8, 2000 – Tokyo train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo subway train derails and is hit by another train on the next track; four are killed and 33 are injured.
April 5, 2000 – Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway: A freight train's brakes fail between Strømmen and Lillestrøm; it collides with another stationary freight train at Lillestrøm station. Two gas wagons loaded with propane catch fire and 2000 people are evacuated in fear of a BLEVE, but there are no casualties.
August 15, 2000 - 13 die near Kenya's fourth largest city, Kisumu after a passenger train rolls back because of brake failure.
August 19, 2000 - at least 25 burn to death after a goods train carrying gas rolls back and hits stationary wagons, exploding in the process.
/ October 17, 2000 – Hatfield rail crash, England: As the London-Leeds express passes at 115 mph (185 km/h), a faulty rail shatters into 300 pieces because of a condition known as rolling contact fatigue. Four are killed, and 102 are injured. Implications of this rail failure forces biggest and most expensive re-railing exercise in British history, with huge service disruption for many months. Operator Railtrack is found guilty in one of the longest rail-related trials in UK legal history, but manslaughter charges against company managers are not sustained.
June 6, 2000 - A bomb explodes on a train in Bathinda, killing two people and injuring 1.
June 28, 2000 - 13 children die after a goods train they were riding on derails in Padang. The Indonesian government cracks down on passengers clinging onto the sides of freight trains as a means of free travel. (Source- BBC)
November 11, 2000 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular train catches fire in a tunnel due to an unsafely installed heater, 155 die.
December 2, 2000 – Sarai Banjara rail disaster, a crowded commuter train crashes into a derailed freight train in the Punjab. More than 45 are killed.
December 30, 2000 - Rizal Day bombings, Philippines: A bomb explodes on a Manila Light Rail Transit System train in a terrorist attack near Blumentritt station. 22 died and hundreds were injured.

[edit] 2001

January 12, 2001 – Nvoungouti, Congo: Over 30 people killed when two trains collide because of a brake failure at Nvoungouti. ^[1]
February 28, 2001 – Selby rail crash, Selby, North Yorkshire, England: A driver on England's M62 motorway falls asleep at the wheel and runs off the road, landing on railway tracks; he escapes, but the car is almost instantly hit by a passenger train, which derails and hits a coal train coming in the opposite direction. 10 people are killed, over 80 are injured.
March 27, 2001 – Pécrot rail crash, Pécrot, Belgium: Two passenger trains collide on the same track, killing 8 and injuring 12.
April 12, 2001 – Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada: a teenager tampered with a control switch on the VIA Rail Canasa's Ocean. Many people were injured in the resulting crash.
May 15, 2001 – Toledo, Ohio, United States: A CSX freight train runs away in the yard at Toledo, Ohio, carrying 47 cars, including some with hazardous molten phenol acid, and no engineer aboard. The engineer had stepped out to reset a switch but had improperly applied the dynamic brake. It runs unmanned for 66 miles (106 km.) to Kenton, Ohio before being stopped by a railroad worker who jumps aboard and manages to stop it. CSX also previously managed to couple an engine onto the end of the train and slow it down to 10 mph.
June 21, 2001 – Kadalundi River rail disaster, Kerala, India: 57 people are killed.
July 18, 2001 – Howard Street Fire, Baltimore, Maryland, United States: A 60-car CSX train carrying chemicals and wood products derails in a 1.7 mile (2.7 km) long tunnel under Baltimore, causing a fire that burns for six days and water contamination.
August 19, 2001 – Kurunegala train crash, Sri Lanka: A Sri Lankan trail derails because of speeding and overcrowding. 13 people are killed. ^[2]
September 2, 2001 – Cirebon, Indonesia: A passenger train and a locomotive collide, killing 40 and seriously injuring 37. ^[3]
November 8, 2001 – Russia: A nuclear waste train from Bulgaria crashed at midnight between the Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo on the Trans-Siberian railway . 14 of the 20 tanker-wagons derailed and the line was closed for 12 and ½ hours. 1km of track was damaged in the crash as well. ^[4]
December 18, 2001 – Orestiada, Greece: 1 dies after a train becomes stuck in a snow drift and derails at the town of Orestiada, near the Bulgarian border. Temperatures fall as low as −10 degrees Celsius. ^[5]

[edit] 2002

January 18, 2002 – Minot, North Dakota, United States: A Canadian Pacific Railway train derails at 0140 CST near a residential area west of Minot; the derailment results in a massive anhydrous ammonia leak. Seven of 15 tank cars rupture, releasing more than 750 000 l (200,000+ US gallons) of anhydrous ammonia which vaporizes in the sub-zero air, forming a toxic cloud that drifts over much of Minot. One man dies and numerous others are treated for chemical exposure.^[6]
February 6, 2002 – Charlotte’s Dale train crash, South Africa: Two commuter trains collide in Charlotte’s Dale near Durban, resulting in 22 fatalities, of which 16 are children. ^[7]
February 20, 2002 – Al Ayatt train disaster, Egypt: A train packed to double capacity catches fire, 373 die.
April 18, 2002 – Crescent City, Florida, United States: An Amtrak Auto-Train derails near Crescent City, putting 21 cars on the ground. Four people perish in the accident, 142 suffer from injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the accident was caused by a hot-weather "sun kink" misalignment of the track due to inadequate CSX maintenance-of-way, and stated that equipment and track damages totaled about $(US)8.3 million.
May 2, 2002 – Firdale, Manitoba, Canada: An eastbound CN train collides with a trailer; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, benzene, glycol and hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 local residents.
May 10, 2002 – Potters Bar rail crash, north of London, England: a northbound train derails at high speed; seven killed, 11 seriously injured.
May 13, 2002 – Jaunpur train crash, 12 people die when a passenger train derails and crashes in Uttar Pradesh. An inquest later blames sabotage for the crash.
May 25, 2002 – Tenga, Mozambique: In an accident eerily reminiscent of Armagh 1889, passenger carriages, separated from a train also carrying freight, run away and smash into a cement train, killing 200.
June 13, 2002 – Alawwa train crash, Sri Lanka: Train derails whilst coming into Alawwa station, killing 14 people.^[8]
June 24, 2002 – Igandu train disaster, Tanzania: Nearly 300 are killed when a passenger train rolls backwards into a goods train.
July 29, 2002 – Kensington, Maryland, United States: An eastbound Amtrak train strikes a sun kink at 60 mph (100 km/h) at milepost 11.78 in Kensington at about 1355. Several go down an embankment and four Superliners overturn against trees. 16 are seriously injured, 79 suffer from minor injuries. The cause was determined to be improperly tamped ballast, improper slow order imposition, coupled with the 96°F (35°C) sunny weather which caused the misalignment. Slow orders on very hot days are imposed on passenger trains in the area following this accident.
September 9, 2002 – Bad Münder, Germany: Two freight trains collide head-on after a brake failure on one of the trains. A tanker car loaded with 1-Chlor-2,3-epoxypropan explodes, contaminating the station and exposing 96 firemen to carcinogenic fumes.^[9]
September 9, 2002 – Rafiganj rail disaster, Over 130 people are killed when a passenger train derails and falls into the Dhave River in Bihar because of sabotaged tracks. ^[10]
December 21, 2002 – Kurnool train crash, 20 people die when a passenger train derails in Andhra Pradesh. Later the cause is revealed to be deliberate sabotage.

[edit] 2003

January 3, 2003 – Ghatnandur train crash, 18 people die in the collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra ^[11]

Aftermath of the Waterfall train disaster.

January 31, 2003 – Waterfall train disaster, Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffers a heart attack and dies; the train speeds out of control and derails on a curve, killing 6 passengers.
February 2, 2003 – Dete train crash, Zimbabwe: Two trains collide, derailing and catching fire, killing over 40 people. ^[12]
February 18, 2003 – Daegu subway fire, South Korea: A mentally ill man starts a fire which engulfs two subway trains, killing some 200.
March 1, 2003 – Chiayi, Taiwan: A brake system malfunction aboard a train on the Alishan Forest Railway causes the train to lose control and plummet into a valley. 17 are killed, 173 injured.
March 20, 2003 – Roermond, Netherlands: The driver of an NS passenger train has a heart attack, runs through a red signal, collides head-on with a freight train; the driver is killed, six passengers are seriously injured. Apparently, the driver kept his foot on the dead man's switch during his heart attack and the slow speed of the train did not trigger the automatic safety system (one of its major design flaws), so the train did not stop.
May 15, 2003 – Ladhowal train fire, A passenger train catches fire, 38 people perish near Ladhowal in the Punjab. ^[13]
June 3, 2003, Albacete train crash – 19 people are killed in a train collision in Albacete, Southern Spain. ^[14]
June 20, 2003 – southern California, United States: A runaway Union Pacific freight train carrying lumber derails in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, California, destroying several homes and rupturing natural gas lines. ^[15]
June 23, 2003 – Vaibhavwadi rail disaster: 51 people die when a special holiday trail derails in Maharashtra, India.
July 2, 2003 – Warangal train crash: 22 people die when a train's brakes fail and it falls off a bridge into a crowded fish market in Warangal, India.
2003 - a head-on collision between passenger and freight trains killed 50 people.

[edit] 2004

February 18, 2004 – Nishapur train disaster, Iran: A train derails and catches fire, exploding hours later. About 300 are killed.
March 11, 2004 – 2004 Madrid train bombings: 191 people are killed when terrorist bombs are detonated on four commuter trains in Madrid. ^[16]
April 22, 2004 – Ryongchon disaster, North Korea: Over 50 are killed and more than 1000 injured when an explosion takes place.
February 15, 2004 – Tebay , Cumbria, England: A sleeper transporter trolley with defective brakes carrying 16 tonnes of rails became detached from a maintenance train south of Carlisle and rolled down the falling gradient until it struck and killed 4 workmen in a team repairing the line at Tebay, just north of Penrith. The owner of the sleeper transporter truck (Network Rail) is subsequently prosecuted. (Sorce- The Metro newspaper (U.K.), March 2006).
April 16, 2004- Temelli, Turkey: An overnight Izmir to Ankara express hits a truck in Temelli, near Ankara, as it crossed a level-crossing. 7 to 10 children were killed and 2 to 5 more wounded according to various reports at the time. ^[17]
June 17, 2004 – Karanjadi train crash, near Matsyagandha,Bombay, India: 20 die and 100 are injured when 10 carriages fall off a bridge during a monsoon-induced landslide.^[18]
July 23, 2004 &ndash Turkey: 36 are killed as a speeding train derails between Ankara and Istanbul. ^[19] ^[20] ^[21] ^[22] ^[23] ^[24] ^[25] ^[26] ^[27]
August 4, 2004 – Near Tavsancil, Turkey: 85 Injured and 6 dead as a tired train driver falls asleep at the controls of his train, goes trough a red light and hits a stationary train head on.
September 10, 2004 – Nosaby, near Kristianstad, Skåne, Sweden: A heavy truck is caught between the barriers at a level crossing, and is hit by a passenger train. Two aboard the train are killed, 47 are injured. The truck driver was later found to be guilty of not attempting to move the vehicle away from the level crossing, and was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment.
October 23, 2004 – Nagaoka, Niigata: During the Chūetsu Earthquake Eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jōetsu Shinkansen were derailed. No one were killed neither injured of the 154 passengers.
November 3, 2004 – Washington, DC, United States: An out-of-service Washington Metro train loses its brakes, rolls backwards into the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station, and hits a revenue train servicing the station. No one is killed, but 20 people are injured.
Wreckage at the Ufton Nervet rail crash.

November 6, 2004 – Ufton Nervet rail crash, England: A High Speed Train hits a stationary car on a level crossing (an apparent suicide) at 100mph and derails. Five train passengers and the drivers of both the train and the car are killed; over 100 passengers are injured.
November 10, 2004 – Ankara, Turkey: 37 die when a express train hits a truck on a crossing near Ankara and derailed.
November 14, 2004 – Ankara, Turkey: 15 dead and 45 injured as another express train derails near Ankara.
November 15, 2004 – Bundaberg Tilt Train Derailment, Berajondo (near Bundaberg), Queensland, Australia: The world's fastest narrow-gauge train derails at 108km/h. Remarkably, nobody is killed or permanently injured. The cause of the accident is still unknown and an investigation is still under way.
December 26, 2004 – "Queen of the Sea" train disaster, Telwatta, Sri Lanka: Approximately 1700 are killed in the world's worst rail disaster to date as a train is overwhelmed by a tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

[edit] 2005

January 6, 2005 – Graniteville train disaster, South Carolina, United States: Still under investigation by the NTSB; preliminary findings are that a turnout is left lined for a siding when it should have been lined for the mainline, causing a through Norfolk Southern freight train to collide with a parked train. ^[28] – Ten killed, the engine crew, and nearby citizens who are caught in toxic gas cloud released from a damaged tank car.

Aerial view of the Graniteville train disaster accident scene. Courtesy of EPA

January 12, 2005 – Fort St. John, Winnipeg. 5 cars of a CN propane tanker train de-rail, causing a major evacuation.
January 26, 2005 – Bangkok- 140 injured as 2 metro tains collide on the new Blue-line.
January 26, 2005 – Glendale train crash, California, United States: In what was originally thought to be a failed suicide attempt by an automobile driver, a southbound Metrolink double deck commuter train collides with a vehicle that had been driven onto the tracks and derails; the derailed train strikes the northbound Metrolink train on the other mainline track and a parked Union Pacific Railroad freight train on a siding. 11 people are killed, about 100 injured.
February 3, 2005 – Nagpur level crossing disaster, India: A tractor-trailer carrying a wedding party is hit by a train. 55 wedding guests are killed.
February 28, 2005 – A chlorine tanker train derails due to brake failure after they were wrongly set to "empty". The line was closed for 2 weeks.
April 14, 2005 – Solon Springs, Wisconsin: 19 cars of a CN train derail and cause a forest fire.
April 15, 2005 – in the Bratislava-Petržalka railway station in the 11.00, the Austrian ÖBB railway company's international superexpress train IC 402 „Gerlach“ Bratislava-Wienna to be collision of the automobil - 1 member injured.
April 21, 2005 – Vadodara rail collision, India: collision between freight and passenger express train; 18 are killed.

Investigation at the scene of the Amagasaki rail crash.

April 25, 2005 – Amagasaki rail crash, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan: A train derailed on sharp curve and smashed into an apartment building. 107 are killed, 549 are injured. Later investigation showed the driver was speeding because of a slight delay.
April 26, 2005 – Polgahawela level crossing collision, Sri Lanka: a bus tries to beat the train at a level crossing; at least 35 people are killed, all on the bus.
May 5, 2005 – Galt, Illinois, United States - A Union Pacific train derails and destroys the 140ft Transcontinental mainline bridge at Elkhorn creek. ^[29]
May 9, 2005 – Biaora, India: 8 die when a bullock cart is hit at a level-crossing in Biaora.
May 19, 2005 – Bandar Lampung, Indonesia: A passenger train from Palembang crashes in to another passenger train at Bandar Lampung station and derails. 7 children die and just under 200 were injured. Human error was blamed for the accident and many of the dead were passengers clinging on to the sides of the Palembang train. The Indonesian government begins a crack down on people clinging on to the exteriors of trains as a means of travel.
June 12, 2005 – between Uzunovo and Bogatishchevo, Russia: At 0710 local time a bomb explodes derailing the locomotive and first four passenger cars of the Grozny-Moscow train. Investigators found wires leading from the explosion site to a control panel and hideout about 50 m from the site. ^[30]
June 16, – Between Zubstov and Aristovo, Russia: 26 of 69 fuel oil tankers derail and leak. The train was going at 70 km/h. 641 metres of track were detroyed and the Volger River was briefly contaminated. The crash was blamed on poor track maintenance.
June 21, 2005 – Revadim, Israel: A Beersheba-bound passenger train collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim, about 40 km (25 miles) south of Tel Aviv. At least seven people die in the accident and more than 200 are injured. ^[31]
June 30, 2005 – Indonesia: 2 are killed and 80 injured after a passenger train running between Bogor and Jakata ploughed into the back of another train which was waiting in the station after a previous train had broken down outside the same station. Heavy rain was blamed for reducing visibility and most of the deceased were seated on the train's roof.
July 7, 2005 – London, England: A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.
July 13, 2005 – Ghotki rail crash, Ghotki, Pakistan: A chain reaction accident caused by one train missing a signal and colliding into another results in three trains crashed and over 150 people dead.
July 14, 2005 – Gliwice, Poland crashed two truck train in the railway stations entry, one motorman killed, one motorman seriously wounded.
July 26, 2005 – Wiena rail crash - passenger train of the ÖBB crashed of the cargo train, injuring 43 people.
July 28, 2005 – Jaunpur train bombing, Janpur, India: A bomb explodes on a train in Uttar Pradesh, killing 13 people.
July 31, 2005 – Shenyang, China: A train from Xi'an to Changchun passes a sabotaged railway signal and collides with a freight train, killing five of the passenger train's passengers. Officials state that some wiring was stolen from a nearby signal box causing the signal to malfunction. ^[32]
September 17, 2005 – Chicago, Illinois, United States: A Metra commuter train traveling into Chicago derails, killing two and injuring 83.
October 3, 2005 – Datia train crash, Datia, Madhya Pradesh, India: 16 die when a train travels at six times the speed limit and de-rails. ^[33]
October 29, 2005 – Veligonda rail disaster, Veligonda, Andhra Pradesh, India: At least 114 are killed and many more are injured when part of the track is swept away by a flood, causing a train to derail. ^[34]
November 23, 2005- At 6.30 am, local time, a train hit a truck on a level crossing between Tarsus and Mersin. 9 died and 18 were injured. ^[35]
26 November 2005 – Moy near Inverness, Scotland. Nine people are airlifted to hospital when a First ScotRail British Rail Class 170 DMU derails after hitting debris from a landslide caused by a local blizzard.
November 29, 2005 – Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo: Over 60 people are swept off the roof of a train by the beams of bridge in the Maniema province.
December 25, 2005 – Yamagata Prefecture, Japan: All 6 cars of an express train derail 290 km (180 miles) north of Tokyo; 5 people are killed and more than 30 are injured. Strong winter winds are thought to be the cause. ^[36]

[edit] 2006

Recovery and rescue efforts in the Bioče train disaster.

January 23, 2006 – Bioče train disaster: A passenger train crashes into a ravine near Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro killing 46 and injuring 198. ^[37]
January 29, 2006 – A broken rail causes a derailment near Jhelum in the Punjab, killing 2 and injuring 29. Poor maintenance is officially being cited as cause of the accident, but sabotage was suspected by some authorities. The government inquiry later blamed defective and aging rails. (Sorce-the B.B.C.).
February 16, 2006 – Serres, Greece: An inter-city train strikes a truck at a grade crossing near Serres and derails. A passenger and the truck driver are killed, and twenty others on board the train are injured.
March 13, 2006 – Austin, Texas, United States: Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, the reigning Miss Deaf Texas, is killed by the snowplow on a 65-car Union Pacific freight train while walking alongside the tracks and text-messaging her parents. The train sounded its horn repeatedly and attempted to apply the emergency brakes but could not stop before hitting McAvoy. ^[38]
April 15, 2006 – Gubuck, Java: Thirteen die and 26 are injured as two trains collide and wreckage falls into a paddy field. One Swiss man was among the injured. Human error by the driver was officially blamed for the crash. ^[39]
April 28, 2006 – Victoria, Australia: A V/Line VLocity high-speed train is derailed when struck by an 18 wheeler truck, killing two and injuring 28 on the Ballarat to Ararat line.^[40]
June 12, 2006 – Netanya, Israel: A passenger train from Tel Aviv to Haifa derails after colliding with a lorry on a level crossing, killing five and injuring more than 100. ^[41]
July 3, 2006 – Valencia metro accident in Valencia, Spain: A Valencia Metro train derails after leaving Jesús station, killing 41 and injuring at least 47. The records of the train's black box show that the train passed a bend where the speed is limited to 40 km/h at 80 km/h. ^[42]^[43]
July 11, 2006 – A 7.10 in the railway station Kłaj, express train nr.83503 of the relation Kołobrzeg - Rzeszów, butted the stationary service personal train nr.23901. Two first coach have takeing. The motorman of the service personal train have wounded. Burnt out of the express train's electromotive and two coach.
July 11, 2006 – A series of bomb attacks strikes commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing at least 200.^[44]
July 14, 2006 – Luxembourg: A man sets a newspaper alight on board a train, resulting in a fire that injures 31, with seven people suffering critical injuries. The culprit is suspected to have a mental disorder.^[45]
July 13, 2006 – Skopje, Macedonia: 2 died instantly and 4 were injured as passenger train hit a tractor and trailer near Skopje. One of the dead was a 14 year old boy and the other one was an old man. The train then skidded in to the taxi rank at a near by station and injured a taxi driver as his car was crushed under the train. The train driver is being quizzed over possible safety lapses. Some reports came 4 people on the train were slightly injured also. ^[46] ^[47] ^[48]
July 25, 2006 – Warsaw, Poland in the railway station Warszawa Stadion, in 5.50, a Skierniewice – Pilawa passenger train of the Spółka „Koleje Mazowieckie – KM” rail have dashing into back of the Zakopane – Gdynia Główna Intercity passenger train of the PKP TLK (Tanie Linie Kolejowe) - 38 injured.
August 21, 2006 – Egypt: Two trains collide in the town of Qalyoub, 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Cairo, killing 57 people and injuring 128.^[49]
August 21, 2006 – Spain: A speeding eastbound RENFE intercity train derails in Villada, 40 km west of Palencia, leaving six people dead and 36 injured.^[50]^[51]
August 27, 2006 – Zimbabwe: Five people are killed in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train 30 km south of Victoria Falls. ^[52]
September 4, 2006 – Egypt: A passenger train collides with a freight train north of Cairo, killing five and injuring 30.^[53] ^[54]

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September 22, 2006 – Lathen, Emsland, Germany: 21 passengers and two maintenance workers die and many more are injured when a German Transrapid train collides with a maintenance of way vehicle on the system's test track near the Netherlands border. See also: 2006 Lathen maglev train accident.^[55]^[56]^[57] ^[58]

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Trains collide in Northern France

October 11, 2006 – 2006 Zoufftgen rail crash, near Metz, France: Passenger and freight service collide head on at Zoufftgen, Moselle, close to the Luxembourgish border. 5 people, including the drivers of both trains, are killed and 20 more are injured in the accident.^[59]. The accident is ascribed to human error in the controlling signalling centre in Luxembourg.
October 17, 2006 – Rome Metro collision, Italy: Two metro trains collide at Rome's Vittorio Emanuele metro station, killing at least one person and injuring around 60 people.^[60]
October 19, 2006 – Poland, Szastarka - in the 19.35 o'clock of the railway line Lublin - Rozwadów, a railbus have collide of the car, killed one person and one girl injured. ^[61]
October 20, 2006 – New Brighton, PA - A train of tank cars containing ethanol derails on a bridge crossing the Beaver River. The resulting fire burns for days and forces some evacuations. ^[62] ^[63]
November 9, 2006 – India- 40 dead and 15 injured in a West Bengal rail accident. Indian rail safety is questioned. (Source: Sofia news agency, Nov' 10th, 2006.).
November 13, 2006 – South Africa - A Metrorail train smashes into a truck carrying farm workers at a level crossing near Somerset West, killing 27 people. ^[64]
November 17, 2006 – Zaryń beside Konin, Poland - 7.19 two truck-train collision, killed the one motorman. ^[65]
November 20, 2006 – India- A bomb explodes on a train near Belacoba station in West Bengal, India, killing 7 and injuring 53. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster. ^[66]
November 20, 2006 – Germany- A commuter train collides with a track maintenance vehicle at Südkreuz station in Berlin, injuring 33. ^[67]
November 20, 2006 - A train passes a red signal causing a head-on collision in Rotterdam. The passenger train was empty and none were injured, but there was extensive material damage to the rail track and its overhead power lines ^[68]
November 21, 2006 – Arnhem, Netherlands - A train passes a red signal causing a head-on collision. ^[69]
November 30, 2006 – Alexandria, Virginia, United States - A Washington Metro Yellow-line train hits two track inspectors, killing one. ^[70]
December 1, 2006 – Brisbane, Australia - A train clipped the wheelchair of a disabled man, dragging him down the platform until the wheelchair broke apart. His mother, who was next to him, was thrown into the path of the train and also killed. They were over the safety line at the time. ^[71]
December 1, 2006 – Bihar, India - Bhágalpur in the Ganges, a portion of a 150-year-old bridge named 'Ulta Pul' in the process of being dismantled, collapsed over a passing train of the India's Eastern Railways, killing 35 and injuring 17.^[72]^[73]^[74]^[75]
December 12, 2006 – Transilvania, Cluj/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Romania, one cargo train and one personal train collapsed, and two persons wounded: one pasenger and one railroader. http://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/?p=wiecej&id=4764
December 12/December 13, 2006 – Szolnok, Hungary, a pasenger 3-cars railcar train Szolnok --- Újszász --- Jászapáti in the night no stopping in the red signal post, and runing to the stoping electric train Szolnok --- Újszász --- Budapest-Keleti pu/Budapest Keleti Railway Station, and slip out of. Seven persons have wounded.
December 12, 2006 – Northern Territory, Darwin. One of Australia's most popular tourist trains derailed Tuesday in the remote Outback, but no one among the 82 people aboard was seriously hurt, a spokesman said. The Ghan, which makes the 1,850-mile run from Adelaide to Darwin twice weekly, derailed about 18 miles south of the Adelaide River in Australia's Northern Territory. "We don't know why it came off the tracks. It's too early to tell," said Alan Stuart, a spokesman for the Great Southern Railway. "At this stage, we are investigating." The train was carrying 65 passengers and a crew of 17, none of whom suffered serious injuries.http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2719669
December 13, 2006 – Avio, Italy, a freight train operated by Trenitalia ignores a red signal and crashes on a freight train of the private company Rail Traction Company. Two engineers of Trenitalia die in the violent crash ^[76]^[77]

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