Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

Ne zaman

8 Eki 1952

Tür

Demiryolu kazası

Koordinatlar

51.59° N, 0.33° W

Description

train wreck

Deaths

112

Injured

340

Participants

3

Cause

signal passed at danger, rear-end collision, human error

1952 train crash in Wealdstone, England

Three trains collided at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex, England during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.

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