What the records say
- When
- 15 Oct 1956
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 34.62° N, 136.51° E
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 42
- Injured
- 94
3 sources record it
- 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 “According to Japan Transport Ministry official confirmed report, two trains crush in Rokken rail accident in Mie Prefecture, official death toll was 42…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “六軒事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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