Tsurumi rail accident

When

9 Nov 1963

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

35.49° N, 139.66° E

Description

train accident in Japan

Deaths

162

Injured

120

1963 train accident in Japan

The Tsurumi rail accident occurred on November 9, 1963, between Tsurumi and Shin-Koyasu stations on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan, about 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of Tokyo, when two passenger trains collided with a derailed freight train, killing 162 people.

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