Shigaraki train disaster

When

14 May 1991

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

34.92° N, 136.09° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

42

Injured

614

Cause

Traffic light rating system

1991 railway accident in Japan

The Shigaraki train disaster was a railway accident that occurred in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, Japan on May 14, 1991. A Shigaraki Kōgen Railway (SKR) train and a West Japan Railway Company train collided head-on, killing 42 people and injuring 614 others. Until the Amagasaki derailment in 2005, it was the deadliest railway disaster in Japan since the Tsurumi rail accident of 1963, which killed 161 people.

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