What the records say
- When
- 28 Feb 2001
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 53.69° N, 1.10° W
- Description
- rail crash caused by a car on the track
- Deaths
- 10
Selby rail crash
2001 rail crash in North Yorkshire, England
The Selby rail crash was a railway accident that occurred on 28 February 2001 near Great Heck, Selby, North Yorkshire when a passenger train collided with a car which had crashed down a motorway embankment onto the railway line. The passenger train then collided with an oncoming freight train. Ten people died, including the drivers of the two trains, and 82 were injured.
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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 “A rail crash near Selby kills 10 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Великобритании близ города Селби произошло столкновение пассажирского и грузового поездов”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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