What the records say
- When
- 1 Mar 1962
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 52.17° N, 13.22° E
- Description
- train wreck
Trebbin rail accident
1962 disaster in Trebbin, East Germany
The Trebbin rail accident near Trebbin in East Germany caused at least 70 deaths. It occurred on 1 March 1962 near Kliestow, today an Ortsteil of Trebbin, on the Berlin–Halle railway in what was then East Germany, when the gun barrel on the unsecured turret of a Soviet tank on a military train struck an express passenger train, leading to the military train derailing.
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