What the records say
- When
- 25 Feb 1978
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 31.58° S, 61.38° W
- Description
- train wreck in Santa Fe Province, Argentina
- Deaths
- 55
- Injured
- 56
Sa Pereira rail disaster
Train wreck in Argentina in 1978
The Sa Pereira accident was a train wreck in the city of Sa Pereira in Santa Fe Province which occurred on 25 February 1978, when a long-distance passenger train operated by Ferrocarriles Argentinos crashed into a truck at a level crossing between the General Mitre Railway and RN 19 highway in Sa Pereira.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la aldea de Sa Pereira, 72 km al oeste de la ciudad de Santa Fe (Argentina), se registra la segunda mayor tragedia ferroviaria del país: 55 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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