Ladbroke Grove rail crash

When

5 Oct 1999

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

51.52° N, 0.22° W

Description

Rail accident at Ladbroke Grove

Deaths

31

Injured

523

1999 rail accident in London

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when a Thames Trains passenger train passed a signal at danger, colliding almost head-on with a First Great Western passenger train. With 31 people killed and 417 injured, it was one of the worst rail accidents in 20th-century British history.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Eisenbahnunfall von Ladbroke Grove sterben 31 Menschen, 523 werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Ladbroke Grove en Londres, Reino Unido, chocan dos trenes a causa de fallas en la señalización”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page