What the records say
- When
- 11 Aug 1837
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 36.72° N, 76.61° W
- Description
- first fatal head-on rail collision
- Deaths
- 3
1837 Suffolk head-on collision
First fatal head-on rail collision
The 1837 Suffolk head-on collision was the first ever head-on train collision to result in fatalities. The accident occurred on August 11, 1837 in Suffolk, Virginia, United States.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Eisenbahnunfall von Suffolk im US-Bundesstaat Virginia ist der erste Frontalzusammenstoß zweier Züge mit Todesopfern in der Geschichte der Eisenbahn”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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