CSX 8888 incident

When

15 May 2001

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

41.59° N, 83.49° W

Description

Runaway Train Incident

Deaths

0

Injured

1

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

2001 runaway train event in Ohio, US

The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, ran uncontrolled for just under two hours at up to 53 miles per hour (85 km/h) while pulling a train of 47 cars; 2 cars were loaded with molten phenol, a substance used in dyes and glues.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “инцидент с CSX 8888, в результате которого неуправляемый поезд проследовал 66 миль (106 км) по штату Огайо”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en los Estados Unidos, se produce el incidente ferroviario del CSX 8888 que no dejó víctimas fatales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page