On July 31, 1815, the Philadelphia Disaster occurred, which became the first railroad disaster in history. We decided to give a list of the worst railway disasters in history.

Occurred on July 31, 1815 during a test of the Mechanical Traveler steam locomotive. The train developed a low speed and in order to impress the public, the creators decided to increase it by increasing the pressure in the boiler tank. The ensuing explosion killed 16 people. Among the dead were mainly workers, but several outside observers were also affected. In some sources, this accident is not considered a railway accident, since it did not occur on the main road, but at a special testing site. Be that as it may, the Philadelphia railway accident remains in history in first place in the number of deaths from a steam boiler explosion.

On May 8, 1842, the Versailles railway disaster occurred, killing more than fifty people. The terrible incident happened because the train derailed due to a faulty axle. At the time of the incident, the carriages were crowded with people, as the train was moving from Versailles after mass celebrations were taking place in the city. Due to such a terrible coincidence, the number of victims turned out to be so colossal. After the first car derailed, the pusher at the rear of the train continued moving, causing a fire.

Occurred on October 22, 1875. One locomotive transported both people and oil; in poor visibility conditions, the driver did not see the traffic lights. By coincidence, the train flew onto an unfinished section of rails, after which it went downhill. Oil tanks caught fire, causing huge casualties. According to official data, 70 people died.

On December 28, 1879, one of the largest disasters occurred on the bridge over the River Tay. Due to gusty, heavy winds, several spans of the bridge were blown out, causing the train to fall into the water. All 75 passengers in the carriages were killed.

On July 16, 1945, the largest railway disaster in German history occurred. A train carrying prisoners of war crashed into a US Army train, causing the train to derail, causing the carriages to catch fire and causing numerous casualties on both trains.

On August 6, 1952, one of the deadliest disasters in the USSR occurred, killing about 109 people. The disaster occurred because the train ran over a horse. According to official data, a train weighing a thousand tons was derailed because of the animal. In fact, the disaster occurred, among other things, due to the overload of the train, as well as the imperfection of the safety measures of that time.

Train crash at Harrow & Wealdstone station

On October 8, 1952, a train crash occurred in London. A train pulled into the train standing on the platform. Then a locomotive rushing at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour flew into the resulting traffic jam. The tragedy resulted in 340 casualties and 112 deaths.

On June 6, 1981, one of the worst train accidents in history occurred. Due to an attempt to stop in front of an animal running onto the road, as well as due to heavy winds, 7 carriages carrying about a thousand people were overturned into the water. About five thousand passengers died in the disaster.

The largest disaster in Russian history occurred on June 3, 1989. Due to an accident on the pipeline, when two oncoming trains passed, the air-fuel mixture that had accumulated in the lowland ignited, resulting in a powerful explosion that scattered the trains like matchboxes. The tragedy resulted in a gigantic fire that killed 645 people and disabled hundreds. About 200 children died during the crash. The force of the explosion was comparable to that of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The column of flame was visible hundreds of kilometers away.

On December 26, 2004, the largest and deadliest railway tragedy occurred. Due to an earthquake in the Indian Ocean and the resulting tsunami that hit the railway running along the coast, the train was washed into the ocean. About 2,000 people died.

State of emergency for railways ah lead to casualties and serious destruction. Sometimes hundreds of people die due to an absurd accident. How does this happen? Let's try to figure it out.

Terrible train accidents in the USSR

Rail transport, both passenger and freight, was widespread in the USSR. Several major railway accidents are known to have occurred in the territory Soviet Union.

Disaster near Ufa

The largest of all railway accidents is considered to be the disaster near Ufa, which occurred in the summer of 1989. The explosion occurred while two oncoming passenger trains were passing.

The cause was a cloud that appeared after an accident on the nearby Siberia-Ural-Volga region pipeline. Five hundred and seventy-five people became victims of the explosion, and about the same number were injured.

Explosion in Arzamas

In the summer of 1988, an explosion occurred at a railway crossing in the city of Arzamas. Cars carrying hexogen exploded. As a result, more than eight hundred people were left homeless, one hundred and fifty-one houses were completely destroyed. One and a half thousand people were injured, the explosion claimed the lives of ninety-one people.

Disaster at Kamenskaya station

The accident that occurred at the Kamenskaya station is considered one of the worst disasters in the USSR. Due to faulty brakes, a freight train entered the station at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour and collided with the tail of a passenger train standing there. It was night, the passengers were sleeping. One hundred and six people were killed and one hundred and fourteen were injured. The tragedy happened in nineteen eighty-seven.

Worst railway accidents in the world

Railway accidents periodically occur in all countries of the world, however, not all of them are large-scale and destructive. Below are examples of the largest accidents.

Versailles train accident (France)

One of the first large-scale disasters on the railway occurred in one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. The train, traveling along the Versailles-Paris route, was crowded with passengers returning from mass celebrations. It derailed, killing more than fifty people.

Crash in Bihar (India)

One of the most terrible railway disasters occurred in 1981 in India. A train carrying about a thousand passengers overturned due to strong winds and an attempt to slow down in front of an animal that had stepped onto the railway tracks. More than five hundred people were killed.

Accident at Steblova station (Czechoslovakia)

The largest disaster in Czechoslovakia that occurred on the railway was the disaster near the Steblova station in nineteen sixty. Two trains crashed head-on at high speed. This happened due to the fault of the train crew of one of the trains, which passed a prohibitory semaphore signal. One hundred and eighteen people died. About the same number were injured.

Serious emergency situations on railways in modern Russia

IN modern Russia Unfortunately, train accidents also happen. Here are some of them.

Crash in Podsosenka

In nineteen ninety-two, a train traveling from Riga to Moscow collided with a freight train at the Podsosenka crossing. A fire started and spread to passenger cars. Forty people were killed and twenty-two were injured.

Nevsky Express crash

In two thousand and nine, the Nevsky Express train crashed due to a terrorist attack. Ninety-eight people were wounded and eighteen were killed. Among the dead were several government officials and prominent businessmen.

Clashes in the Chelyabinsk region near Asha

In two thousand and eleven, two freight trains loaded with coal collided due to a faulty braking system. As a result, seventy carriages derailed and two people died.

The worst train accident in history

The deadliest and largest disaster in the history of railways is the one that occurred in Sri Lanka, near the village of Peraliya. After what happened in the Indian Ocean strong earthquake, a tsunami hit the coastal part of Sri Lanka. A passenger train passing along the coastline during the tsunami was washed away into the ocean waters.

According to various sources, the disaster claimed from one thousand seven hundred to two thousand human lives. This happened in December two thousand and four.

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Rail transport is recognized not only in Russia as the safest mode of transport. However, terrible disasters occur on railways, killing people every day. human lives. Statistics railway accidents in the world is not as high as , but between 2014 and 2016 there were 40 serious tragedies. As a result, 100 people died and 1000 were injured.

World disasters involving railway transport 2014–2105

March 20, 2014. In the town of Mersin, Turkey, a passenger train collided with a bus transporting employees from the Tarsus-Mersin industrial facility. The powerful blow literally cut the bus in half. As a result of the tragedy, 9 deaths were reported, and five workers were seriously injured.

9th May. All of Russia celebrates Victory Day, and 13 people died in India. A terrible accident happened on the railway; a train collided with a car. Three people with serious injuries managed to survive.

Death Express

26 of May. Churaid Station, India. The train, which was heading to Grakhpur, for unknown reasons, was traveling on a track where a freight train was located at that time. There was a powerful collision. The tragedy claimed the lives of 40 people. 100 people were taken to different hospitals with serious injuries.

June 6. Northern part of Iran - a collision occurred between a passenger train and a freight train. The train was moving towards Tehran. It carried 340 people, 10 of whom died.

US railroad accident statistics are also disappointing, even when taking into account recent technological advances and high safety standards. Here on August 18, 2014, a freight train collision occurred on the Hoxie branch line. The tragedy caused the strongest. The authorities had to evacuate 500 people living directly in the fire zone. The number of dead is two, the number of injured is two.

Tragedies happen, and official data is almost impossible to obtain - only information covered by licensed American media is available. Many dangerous and deadly tragedies happen every day.

Statistics on railway accidents for 2014

Statistics of railway accidents are also kept in Russia in 2014-2015. However, Russian Railways is reluctant to disclose these terrible figures.

According to official information from Russian Railways, the number of accidents with deaths on the railways over a period of 11 months. 2014 is 20 people. The figure is higher than for a similar one reporting period 2013 by 17.6%. Whereas, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 244 people were injured in accidents. As you can see, the average is 7 times higher.

Conclusion

Rail transport is dangerous. The number of victims is less than the number from road accidents. But accidents on railways happen quite often. In Russia, they don’t take safety too seriously—disasters happen more often. Terrible tragedies also occur in neighboring Ukraine, where security tasks are also not being fulfilled.

26 years ago, on the night of June 3-4, 1989, in the bearish corner of the Urals on the border of the Chelyabinsk region and Bashkiria, a pipeline through which liquefied gas was pumped from Western Siberia to European part Soviet Union. At the same moment, 900 meters from the scene of the incident, two resort trains, crowded with vacationers, were passing in opposite directions along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It was the worst train disaster in Soviet history, killing at least 575 people, including 181 children. Onliner.by talks about the incredible chain of random coincidences that led to it, which had monstrous consequences in their scale.

Early summer of 1989. While the still united country is living out its last years, the friendship of peoples is bursting at the seams, the proletarians are actively disuniting, the only food in stores is canned “Bulls in tomato sauce”, but pluralism and glasnost are in their heyday: tens of millions of Soviet people cling to their television screens, watching with desperate interest the sessions of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The crisis is, of course, a crisis, but the vacation is on schedule. Hundreds of seasonal resort trains are still rushing to the hot seas, where the population of the Union can still spend their full labor rubles on a well-deserved vacation.

All tickets for trains No. 211 Novosibirsk - Adler and No. 212 Adler - Novosibirsk have been sold. Twenty carriages of the first and eighteen carriages of the second were filled with families of Urals and Siberians who were just striving for the much-desired Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and had already rested there. They carried vacationers, rare business travelers, and young guys from the Chelyabinsk hockey team “Tractor-73”, two-time national champions, who decided instead of a vacation to work in the grape harvest in sunny Moldova. In total, on that terrible June night, there were (only according to official data) 1,370 people inside the two trains, including 383 children. The numbers are most likely inaccurate, since separate tickets were not sold for children under five years of age.

At 1:14 a.m. on June 4, 1989, almost all passengers on both trains were already asleep. Some were tired after a long journey, others were just getting ready for it. No one was prepared for what happened in the next moment. And you cannot prepare for this under any circumstances.

“I woke up from falling from the second shelf onto the floor (it was already two o’clock in the morning according to local time), and everything around was already on fire. It seemed to me that I saw some nightmare: the skin on my hand is burning and slipping, a child engulfed in fire is crawling under my feet, a soldier with empty eye sockets is walking towards me with outstretched hands, I am crawling past a woman who cannot extinguish her own hair, and in the compartment there are no longer shelves or doors, no windows..."- one of the miraculously surviving passengers later told reporters.

The explosion, the power of which, according to official estimates, was 300 tons of TNT, literally destroyed two trains, which at that very moment met at the 1710th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway on the Asha - Ulu-Telyak section, near the border of the Chelyabinsk region and Bashkiria. Eleven cars were thrown off the rails, seven of them were completely burned. The remaining cars burned out inside, they were broken in the shape of an arc, the rails were twisted into knots. And in parallel with this, tens and hundreds of unsuspecting people died a painful death.

The PK-1086 Western Siberia - Ural - Volga region pipeline was built in 1984 and was originally intended to transport oil. Already at the last moment, almost before the facility was put into operation, the Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR, guided by a logic understandable only to it, decided to repurpose the oil pipeline into a product pipeline. In practice, this meant that instead of oil, a so-called “wide fraction of light hydrocarbons” was transported through a pipe with a diameter of 720 millimeters and a length of 1852 kilometers - a mixture of liquefied gases (propane and butane) and heavier hydrocarbons. Although the facility changed its specialization, it was built as ultra-reliable with the expectation of future high pressure inside. However, already at the design stage, the first mistake was made in a chain of those that five years later led to the largest tragedy on the railways of the Soviet Union.

At 1,852 kilometers long, a full 273 kilometers of the pipeline passed in close proximity to the railways. In addition, in a number of cases the object came dangerously close to settlements, including fairly large cities. For example, in the section from kilometer 1428 to kilometer 1431, PK-1086 passed less than a kilometer from the Bashkir village of Sredny Kazayak. A gross violation of safety standards was discovered after the launch of the product pipeline. Construction of a special bypass around the village began only the following year, 1985.

In October 1985, during excavation work to open PK-1086 at the 1431st kilometer of its length, powerful excavators working on the ultra-protected pipe caused it significant mechanical damage, for which the product pipeline was not designed at all. Moreover, after the construction of the bypass was completed, the insulation of the section that was opened and left open, in violation of building codes, was not checked.

Four years after those events, a narrow gap 1.7 meters long appeared in the damaged section of the product pipeline. The propane-butane mixture began to flow through it into environment, evaporate, mix with the air and, being heavier than it, accumulate in the lowland through which the Trans-Siberian Railway passed 900 meters to the south. Very close to the strategic railway line, along which passenger and freight trains passed every few minutes, a real invisible “gas lake” formed.

The drivers drew the attention of the site dispatchers to the strong smell of gas in the area of ​​the 1710th kilometer of the road, as well as a drop in pressure in the pipeline. Instead of taking emergency measures to stop traffic and eliminate the leak, both duty services chose not to pay attention to what was happening. Moreover, the organization operating PK-1086 even increased the gas supply to it to compensate for the pressure drop. As propane and butane continued to accumulate, disaster became inevitable.

The Novosibirsk - Adler and Adler - Novosibirsk trains could not possibly meet at this fateful point. Under no circumstances if they followed the schedule. But train 212 was late due to technical reasons, and train 211 was forced to make an emergency stop at one of the intermediate stations to disembark a passenger who had gone into labor, which also resulted in a shift in the schedule. An absolutely incredible coincidence, unthinkable even in the most cruel nightmares, coupled with a blatant violation of technological discipline, nevertheless occurred.

Two late trains met at the damned 1710th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway at 1:14 am. An accidental spark from the pantograph of one of the electric locomotives, or a spark from the train braking after a long descent into a lowland, or even a cigarette butt thrown out of the window was enough to ignite the “gas lake”. At the moment the trains met, a massive explosion of the accumulated propane-butane mixture occurred, and the Ural forest turned into hell.

A policeman from Asha, a city 11 kilometers from the crash site, later told reporters: “I was awakened by a flash of terrible brightness. There was a glow on the horizon. A couple of tens of seconds later, a blast wave reached Asha, breaking a lot of glass. I realized that something terrible had happened. A few minutes later I was already at the city police department, together with the guys I rushed to the “duty room” and rushed towards the glow. What we saw is impossible to imagine even with a sick imagination! The trees burned like giant candles, and the cherry-red carriages smoked along the embankment. There was an absolutely impossible single cry of pain and horror from hundreds of dying and burned people. The forest was burning, the sleepers were burning, people were burning. We rushed to catch the rushing “living torches,” knock the fire off them, and bring them closer to the road away from the fire. Apocalypse…".

More than 250 people instantly burned in this gigantic fire. No one can say the exact numbers, because the temperature at the epicenter of the disaster exceeded 1000 degrees - there was literally nothing left of some passengers. Another 317 people died later in hospitals from terrible burns. The worst thing is that almost a third of all victims were children.

People died in families, children - in entire classes, along with the teachers who accompanied them on vacation. Parents often didn’t even have anything left to bury. 623 people received injuries of varying severity, many of them remained disabled for life.

Despite the fact that the scene of the tragedy was in a relatively inaccessible area, the evacuation of the victims was organized quite quickly. Dozens of helicopters were working, the victims of the disaster were taken out by trucks, even by an uncoupled electric locomotive of a freight train that stood at a nearby station and allowed those same Adler passenger trains to pass. The number of victims could have been even greater if it had not been for a modern burn center, which opened in Ufa shortly before the incident. Doctors, police, railway workers, and finally ordinary people, volunteers from neighboring settlements worked around the clock.

TASS DOSSIER. On August 11, 2017, in Egypt, near the city of Alexandria, a passenger train heading to Cairo crashed at full speed into a train that had stopped due to a breakdown, traveling along the route Port Said - Alexandria.

According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, 41 people were killed in the clash and another 132 were injured.

The editors of TASS-DOSSIER have prepared material about major train accidents that occurred in various countries around the world.

January 3, 1944 near the city of Leon (Spain), about 500 people died during a collision between two trains in a tunnel.

August 6, 1952 At the Drovnino station on the Western Railway in the Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region, a train traveling at high speed collided with a horse, causing the train to derail. 109 people died.

October 8, 1952 two trains collided within London (Great Britain), and 30 minutes later a third train crashed into them. 112 people were killed and 340 people were injured.

June 6, 1981 near Patna in the state of Bihar (India), seven carriages of a passenger train were overturned from a bridge into the Bagmati River by hurricane winds. More than 800 people died.

August 7, 1987 V Rostov region(USSR) electric locomotive freight train, accelerating downhill to 140 km/h, crashed into the rear cars of the Rostov-on-Don - Moscow passenger train. 106 people were killed, 114 were injured, material damage amounted to over 1.5 million rubles. During the investigation, it turned out that the crash occurred due to a malfunction of the brake system on the freight train.

June 3, 1989 The largest train accident in the history of Russia and the USSR occurred near Ufa. As two passenger trains passed by, an explosion occurred on a nearby pipeline as a result of an accident. 575 people were killed and more than 600 were injured.

January 15, 1989 near Dhaka (Bangladesh), as a result of a collision between passenger trains, 135 people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.

January 3, 1990 Near the city of Sukkur (Pakistan), a collision between a passenger and freight train killed 307 people and injured 430.

1April 6, 1990 In the state of Bihar (India), about 100 people died due to a fire on a passenger train.

June 9, 1991 Over 100 people were killed and about 250 injured in a train accident in southern Pakistan.

September 6, 1991 Near the city of Pointe-Noire (Congo), more than 100 people were killed and dozens were injured as a result of a collision between a freight train and a passenger train.

September 22, 1994 In the province of Huila (Angola), 300 people were killed and 147 were injured as a result of the crash of a freight train carrying many people on the platforms.

August 21, 1995 In the state of Uttar Pradesh (India), about 350 people were killed and over 400 were injured in a collision between passenger trains.

March 3, 1997 In the province of Punjab (Pakistan), 128 people died in a train accident.

April 29, 1997 At Rongjiawan station in Hunan province (China), a collision between passenger trains killed 100 people and injured about 300.

June 3, 1998 in the federal state of Lower Saxony, near the city of Eschede (Germany), a car, having broken through a barrier, fell from a bridge onto the railway tracks. A train traveling at a speed of 200 km/h, carrying more than 700 passengers, derailed and crashed into a support of another bridge. As a result, the bridge collapsed and its debris fell onto the passenger cars. More than 100 people died.

November 26, 1998 In the state of Punjab (India), a train accident killed 108 people and injured 230.

August 2, 1999 At the Gaisal station in the state of West Bengal (India), 280 people were killed as a result of a collision between an express passenger train and a train standing at the platform.

February 20, 2002 As a result of a fire on the Cairo-Luxor (Egypt) passenger train, 373 people were killed and 74 people were injured and burned. The cause of the incident was a short circuit in the train's electrical wiring. This is the most major disaster in history railway transport Egypt.

May 25, 2002 in Moamba (Mozambique), a train consisting of passenger and freight cars crashed. More than 200 people died, 400 received various injuries.

June 24, 2002 In Tanzania, a collision between a passenger train and a freight train killed 281 people and injured about 900. The cause of the disaster was a failure of the passenger train's brakes.

September 9, 2002 In the state of Bihar (India), a passenger express train derailed and fell from a bridge into a river. At least 150 people were killed and more than 200 people were injured.

February 18, 2004 Near the city of Nishapur (Iran), gasoline tanks exploded during a collision between freight trains. As a result of the fire, about 400 people died and 460 were injured.

April 22, 2004 At the Rencheon station (DPRK), a collision occurred between trains, one of which was transporting oil, the other - liquefied gas. The disaster resulted in a massive explosion that killed 170 people and injured about 1,300.

December 26, 2004 near the village of Peraliya (Sri Lanka) a train accident occurred in which about 2 thousand people died. The cause of the tragedy was an earthquake and tsunami. This disaster is considered the largest in the history of railway transport.

April 25, 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, o. Five of seven high-speed train cars derailed in Honshu, Japan. The first carriage of the train crashed into a 9-story residential building at high speed. 108 people were killed and more than 450 were injured.

1July 3, 2005 At the Ghotki station in Sindh province (Pakistan), a train crashed into a train standing on the tracks. The derailed cars blocked the adjacent track, where they were rammed by a passing express train. About 300 people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.

October 29, 2005 near the village of Valukodu in the state of Andhra Pradesh (India), a locomotive and seven carriages of a passenger train derailed and fell from a bridge. 200 people were killed and about 100 were injured. The disaster occurred in conditions of severe flooding.

August 1, 2007 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 160 people were killed in a train accident in Kasai province in the central part of the country.

July 10, 2011 In India, 120 km from the city of Lucknow, the administrative center of the state of Uttar Pradesh, a passenger train crashed. The driver applied the emergency brake to avoid crashing into a herd of cows crossing the railroad tracks. As a result, 12 carriages and the train's locomotive derailed. 80 people were killed and more than 350 were injured.

July 6, 2013 In Lac-Mégentique (Canada), a train of 72 tanks with oil, which was traveling from the United States to an oil refinery in Quebec, derailed. As a result of the disaster, a fire started in which 47 city residents died, 30 people who were previously considered missing were declared dead. 2 thousand residents of nearby areas of the city were evacuated. The fire destroyed over 40 buildings. The total amount of damage exceeded $200 million.

July 24, 2013 In Santiago de Compostela (the administrative center of Galicia, Spain), a train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol crashed. 80 people were killed, 178 people were injured of varying severity. The train driver took the blame, admitting that he was speeding on the turn.

April 22, 2014 to Katanga province Democratic Republic Congo, 15 carriages of a freight train carrying hundreds of illegal passengers were derailed. 48 people were killed and about 150 were injured. The cause of the crash was exceeding a safe speed due to an engine problem in one of the two locomotives.

March 20, 2015 In India, a locomotive and two carriages of a passenger train traveling on the Dehradun-Varanasi route derailed at Bahrawan station in Rai Bareli district (Uttar Pradesh). 58 people were killed and more than 150 people were injured. According to the Ministry of Railways of India, the accident occurred due to the fact that the train passed a prohibiting traffic signal.

August 4, 2015 When two passenger trains crashed on a bridge over the Machak River near Kharda (Madhya Pradesh, India), at least 32 people were killed, five were missing and over 40 people were injured. The structures of the railway bridge were washed away as a result of the flood and could not withstand the weight of two trains traveling in opposite directions. The main cause of death was electric shock.

July 12, 2016 Between the settlements of Corato and Andria in the vicinity of Bari (Apulia region, Italy), a head-on collision of two passenger trains occurred on a single-track railway line. As a result, 23 people were killed and over 50 people were injured.

October 21, 2016 A passenger train traveling from Cameroon's capital Yaounde to the country's largest city, Douala, derailed 120 km west of the departure station. As a result, at least 79 people were killed and over 550 more people were injured of varying degrees of severity. A large number of casualties and injuries were caused by overcrowding of the train (the train, designed for 600 passengers, carried more than 1 thousand 300 people).

November 20, 2016 100 km south of Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, India), in the area of ​​the town of Pukhrayan, 14 carriages of a passenger train traveling along the Indore - Patna route derailed. As a result, 151 people died and about 200 more were injured. According to preliminary data, the cause of the disaster was damage to the rail.

November 25, 2016 near the Haft Khan railway station (Iran), a passenger train traveling from Tabriz to Mashhad stopped for an unknown reason, after which another passenger train crashed into it. As a result, five carriages derailed and two carriages caught fire. At least 36 people were killed and about 70 more people were injured.

January 21, 2017 In India, the Hirakhand express passenger train, traveling from Jagdalpur to Bhubaneswar, derailed near Kuneru station (Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh). A diesel locomotive and nine carriages overturned. As a result of the disaster and the crush that occurred in the carriages, 41 people died and 68 were injured.