Hoofddorp train disaster

The Hoofddorp train disaster in the Dutch municipality Haarlemmermeer took place on 30 november 1992. Whilst en route to Vlissingen a passenger train of the type Koploper derailed at about 7.15 near Hoofddorp. 5 people were killed and 33 were wounded in the accident Two days earlier an international train from Amsterdam to Paris derailed at nearly the same location.

Cause

At the site of the accident an S-curve had been constructed because of railway works. In this S-curve the maximum speed had been reduced from 90 to 60 km/h because of repairs to the rails as a consequence of the derailment two days earlier. The investigation concluded that the train driver had driven the train at a minimum speed of 106 km/h. He had not been aware of the speed limitation as he got insufficient information from the train dispatchers.^[1]

References

External links

• (Dutch) Rampen en ongevallen: Leermomenten voor de Overheid?, doctoraalscriptie van Hendriekje van der Meer (Universiteit Leiden), september 2006.^{This text mentions 32 wounded; other sources mention 33.}