What the records say
- When
- 15 Feb 1953
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 46.47° S, 67.83° W
- Description
- train collision in Argentina in 1953
- Deaths
- 36
- Injured
- 65
Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster (1953)
1952 Argentinian train collision
The 1953 Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster occurred on February 15, 1953, in Punta Piedras, a beach resort near the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. It happened in the branch to Rada Tilly that extended alongside the coast, part of the Comodoro Rivadavia Railway and then operated by Ferrocarriles Argentinos.
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