Lac-Mégantic derailment

When

6 Jul 2013

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

45.58° N, 70.89° W

Description

2013 train crash disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada

Deaths

47

Injured

128

Cause

derailment, runaway train

2013 oil train crash in Québec, Canada

On July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade and derailed in downtown Lac-Mégantic, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “【カナダ】貨物列車が無人で暴走しカナダのラック・メガンティックで脱線、積荷の原油に引火し爆発・炎上し、42人の死者と5人の行方不明者が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page