Gare de Lyon rail accident

When

27 Jun 1988

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

48.84° N, 2.37° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

56

Injured

57

Cause

human error, breakdown

1988 public transit disaster in Paris, France

The Gare de Lyon rail accident, occurred on 27 June 1988, when an SNCF commuter train headed inbound to Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal crashed into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57, resulting in the deadliest rail disaster in peacetime France and the third deadliest in the nation's history.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Gare de Lyon rail accident occurs in Paris, France as a commuter train headed inbound to the terminal crashes into a stationary outbound train”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein Zugunglück im Pariser Bahnhof Gare de Lyon fordert 56 Todesopfer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Accident de train à Paris Gare de Lyon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “крушение двух пригородных поездов на Лионском вокзале в Париже”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “フランス・リヨン駅列車衝突事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page