Otłoczyn railway accident

When

19 Aug 1980

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

52.95° N, 18.69° E

Description

1980 head-on collision between passenger train and freight train near Toruń, Poland

Deaths

67

Injured

64

1980 train crash near Otłoczyn, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

The Otłoczyn train collision was a train crash which occurred on 19 August 1980, near the village of Otłoczyn. At 4:30 a.m., a freight train collided with a passenger train which ran from Toruń Main Station to Łódź Kaliska. As a result, 65 people were killed, and 64 injured, out of which an additional two later died, bringing the total number of dead to 67.

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