June 3, 1998 InterCity Express (ICE) derailment kills 101 in Germany
The deadliest train accidents of the last 25 years in Europe.
1998: 101 dead in Germany
On June 3, the derailment of the InterCity Express (ICE) kills 101 and injures 88 in Essen, northern Germany. It is Germany’s deadliest rail disaster since the June 1945 Munich crash that killed 102
2013: 80 dead in Spain
On July 24, a high-speed train traveling at 179 kilometers per hour derails on a curve with a speed limit of 80 km/h shortly before arriving in Santiago de Compostela and then crashes into a wall. In total, 80 people are killed and 140 injured in the worst train accident in Spain since 1944.
2006: 47 dead in Montenegro
At least 47 people die and 234 are injured on January 2 when a train derails 15 kilometers from Podgorica. The driver did not activate the braking system.
2010: 45 dead in Ukraine
Forty-five people are killed on October 12 in a collision between a train and a bus in Magands in central-eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities accused the bus driver of driving through a railway crossing, ignoring the red light and the screams of passengers
2004: 41 dead in Turkey
On July 22, a train derailment near Pamukka in northwestern Turkey’s Sakarya province kills 41 people and injures 80. It is Turkey’s worst rail accident in 50 years.
2033: 33 dead in Hungary
Thirty-three German pensioners die in a bus collision with a train near the tourist town of Sofiok on the shores of Lake Balaton in western Hungary. The bus driver violated the red traffic light.
2009: 32 dead in Italy
The derailment following an explosion of an LPG tank car as the train was leaving Viaggiore station in central Italy kills 32 on June 29. It is the deadliest rail accident in Italy since the Venice-Rome high-speed train collided with a Lecce-Milan train south of Bologna in 1978. Fifty people were killed.
1999: 31 dead in England
On October 5, a commuter train breaks a traffic light and collides with a local express train at the exit of London’s Paddington station, killing 31 people and injuring 245.
Source :Skai
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