Šakvice train disaster
The Šakvice train disaster occurred on 24 December 1953 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured. The Ministry of the Interior said there was gross negligence by a number of railway men who had since been arrested. Other reports said that the express train crew had consumed a number of bottles of wine. Other sources have over 100 or 186 deaths.
This rail accident was one of the 20 most serious rail accidents by death toll to 1953.[1]
References
- The Times (London) 29 December 1953, page 5
- ↑ Conly, Geoff & Stewart, Graham: Tragedy on the Track: Tangiwai & other New Zealand Railway Accidents (Wellington NZ, Grantham House, 1986) ISBN 978-1-86934-008-7 (page 181; list of 20 most serious rail accidents by deaths to 1953)
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Railway accidents in 1953 (1953) |
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- Washington, D.C., United States (15 January)
- Conneaut, Ohio, United States (27 March)
- London, England (8 April)
- Weesp, the Netherlands (19 June)
- Hai Van Pass, Vietnam (24 June)
- Manchester, England (15 August)
- Sydenham, Australia (19 December)
- Tangiwai, New Zealand (24 December)
- Šakvice, Czechoslovakia (24 December)
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