What the records say
- When
- 25 Apr 2005
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 34.74° N, 135.43° E
- Description
- 2005 rail accident in Amagasaki, Japan
- Deaths
- 107
- Injured
- 563
- Cause
- excessive speed
Amagasaki derailment
2005 rail accident in Amagasaki, Japan
The Amagasaki derailment occurred in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on 25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time, just after the local rush hour. A seven-car commuter train came off the tracks on West Japan Railway Company's Fukuchiyama Line just before Amagasaki on its way for Dōshisha-mae via the JR Tōzai Line and the Katamachi Line, and the front two cars rammed into an apartment building.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “107 commuters are killed, 562 injured in the Amagasaki rail crash near Osaka”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Крушение в Амагасаки: из-за превышения скорости пригородный поезд сошёл с рельс и врезался в жилой дом, погибли 107 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “JR福知山线出轨事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “JR福知山線脱線事故（兵庫県尼崎市）が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page