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This is a list of rail accidents from 2000 to 2009. The list includes some terrorist bombings.

See also:

• List of rail accidents (pre-1950)
• List of rail accidents (1950–1999)
• List of rail accidents (2000–2009)
• List of rail accidents (2010-present)
• List of train accidents by death toll

Notable train accidents, 2000–present
2000s:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
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2000s

2000

• January 4, 2000 – Åsta accident, Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two diesel passenger trains collided on the Rørosbanen killing 19. The fire after the collision lasted nearly 6 hours.
• February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: An express night train from Amsterdam to Basel passed a construction area at excess speed and derails at Brühl station on the main line between Cologne and Bonn, crashing into a bin full of litter. 9 people died.
• March 2, 2000 – Kølkær, Denmark: Two regional trains collide head-on after one passes a red signal. 3 die and 39 are injured.^{[citation needed]}
• March 8, 2000 – Naka-Meguro train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo Subway train derails and is hit by another train on the next track; 5 die and 63 are injured.
• April 5, 2000 – Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway: A freight train's brakes fail between Strømmen and Lillestrøm; it collides with a stationary freight train at Lillestrøm station. Two gas wagons loaded with propane catch fire and 2000 people are evacuated in fear of a BLEVE, but there are no casualties.^{[citation needed]}
• June 6, 2000 - A bomb explodes on a train in Bathinda, killing 2 and injuring 1.^{[citation needed]}
• June 28, 2000 - 13 children die after a goods train they were riding on derails in Padang. The Indonesian government cracks down on passengers clinging onto the sides of freight trains as a means of free travel. (Source- BBC)^{[citation needed]}
• July 28, 2000 At 21:15 July 28, 2000, a composition of the series 1700 (No 145) from Jaraguá (destination Francisco Morato) at the station Perus , due to lack of energy. Another composition of the series 1700 (No 127) that was parked on the same line for the same reason and that had already been emptied, lost the brakes on a stretch of descent, traveled 5.5 km in 8 minutes and crashed the train parked at the station Perus. The accident left 9 dead and 115 injured and destroyed the station Perus^{[citation needed]}
• August 15, 2000 - According to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation report, a Butere-Kisumu commuter train carrying 400 passengers on-board ploughed off the rails at the shore of Lake Victoria, Lela, Nyanza, Kenya, in an incident caused by brake failure,causing a person's handbag to be fat.^{[citation needed]}
• August 17, 2000 - 6 die in Kisumu, after a freight train hits a packed bus on a busy level crossing during the morning rush hour.^{[citation needed]}
• August 19, 2000 - According to Kenya Television Network report, a Mombasa-Nairobi freight train with liquefied gas exploded and caught fire at Mavoko, Eastern, Kenya, killing 25 and injured more 50, most of victims and injuring were residents of house, nearby railroad line.^{[citation needed]}
• October 17, 2000 – Hatfield rail crash, England, United Kingdom: As the London-Leeds express passes at 115 mph (185 km/h), a faulty rail shatters into 300 pieces because of a condition known as rolling contact fatigue. Four are killed, and 102 are injured. This rail failure forces the biggest and most expensive re-railing exercise in British history, with huge service disruption for many months. Operator Railtrack is found guilty in one of the longest rail-related trials in UK legal history, but manslaughter charges against company managers are not sustained.
• November 11, 2000 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular train catches fire in a tunnel because of an unsafely installed heater. 155 die.
• December 2, 2000 – Sarai Banjara rail disaster, a crowded commuter train crashes into a derailed freight train in Punjab. More than 45 die.
• December 30, 2000 - Rizal Day bombings, Philippines: A bomb explodes on a Manila Light Rail Transit System train during a terrorist attack near Blumentritt station. 22 die and hundreds are injured.

2001

• January 12, 2001 – Nvoungouti, Congo: Over 30 die when two trains collide because of a brake failure at Nvoungouti.^[1]
• February 7, 2001–Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Northland Railway's Northlander passenger train derails in the Don Valley near the Bayview Extension and Pottery Road area. 23 passengers were on board; 2 slightly injured.^[2]
• February 28, 2001 – Selby rail crash, Great Heck, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom: a driver on England's M62 motorway falls asleep at the wheel and runs off the road, landing on railway tracks; he escapes, but the vehicle is almost instantly hit by a passenger train, which derails and hits a coal train traveling in the opposite direction. 10 die, over 80 are injured. The car driver is later jailed for causing death by dangerous driving.
• March 27, 2001 – Pécrot rail crash, Pécrot, Belgium: Two passenger trains collide on the same track. 8 die and 12 are injured. Lack of common language like Seaspeak a factor.
• April 12, 2001 – Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada: a teenager tampered with a control switch on the VIA Rail Canada's Ocean. Many are injured in the resulting crash.^[3]
• May 15, 2001 – Toledo, Ohio, United States: A CSX freight train of 47 cars, including some with hazardous molten phenol acid, runs away in the yard at Toledo with no engineer aboard. The engineer, Michael Scanlan, had stepped out to reset a switch but had improperly applied the dynamic brake. It runs for 66 miles (106 km) to Kenton, Ohio before being stopped by a railroad worker who jumps aboard and manages to stop it. CSX had slowed the train down to 10 mph by coupling an engine onto the end.^[4].
• June 21, 2001 – Kadalundi River rail disaster, Kerala, India: 57 people die.^{[citation needed]}
• July 18, 2001 – Howard Street Tunnel fire, Baltimore, Maryland, United States: A 60-car CSX train carrying chemicals and wood products derails in a 1.7 miles (3 km) long tunnel under Baltimore, causing water contamination and a fire that burns for six days.^[5].
• August 19, 2001 – Kurunegala train crash, Sri Lanka: 13 die when a train in Sri Lanka derails because of speeding and overcrowding.^[6]
• September 2, 2001 – Cirebon, Indonesia: A passenger train and a locomotive collide, killing 40 and seriously injuring 37.^[7]
• November 8, 2001 – Russia: A nuclear waste train from Bulgaria crashes at midnight between the Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo on the Trans-Siberian railway. 14 of the 20 tanker-wagons derail and the line is closed for about 12 hours. 1 km of track is damaged.^[8]
• December 18, 2001 – Orestiada, Greece: 1 death results when a train becomes stuck in a snow drift and derails at the town of Orestiada, near the Bulgarian border. Temperatures fall to −10°C.^[9]
• December 25, 2001 - A packed passenger train careened into a station just outside Berbes and slammed into a stationary train from Jakarta, killing 27 and seriously wounding dozens according to the local authorities and Indonesian Red Cross.^{[citation needed]}

2002

• January 21, 2002 – Minot train derailment, Minot, North Dakota, United States: A Canadian Pacific Railway train derails at 01:40 CST near a residential area west of Minot; the derailment results in a massive anhydrous ammonia leak. Seven of 15 tank cars rupture, releasing more than 750,000 liters (200,000 US gallons) of anhydrous ammonia which vaporizes in the sub-zero air, forming a toxic cloud that drifts over much of Minot. One man died and numerous others are treated for chemical exposure.^[10]
• February 6, 2002 – Charlotte’s Dale train crash, South Africa: Two commuter trains collide in Charlotte’s Dale near Durban. 22 die, of which 16 are children.^[11]
• February 20, 2002 – Al Ayatt train disaster, Egypt: A train packed to double capacity catches fire, 373 die.
• March 30, 2002 – A Spanish high-speed express train on the Valencia-Barcelona route of the Euromed collides head-on with the Tortosa-Barcelona Catalunya express. Between both trains, 600 passengers were onboard, five cars of the Euromed are damaged at Torredembarra station, outskirts of Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain. At least four are killed and another 88 are injured.^{[citation needed]}
• April 18, 2002 – Crescent City, Florida, United States: 21 cars of an Amtrak Auto-Train derail near Crescent City. Four deaths, 142 injured. The National Transportation Safety Board initial accident report found that the ECP brakes purchased for the train were not functioning: the final report determined that the accident was caused by a hot-weather "sun kink" misalignment of the track due to inadequate CSX maintenance-of-way, and stated that equipment and track damages totaled about $8.3 million.^[12]
• April 23, 2002 – Placentia, California, United States: a BNSF Railway freight train collided head-on with a Metrolink train in Placentia, near the Atwood Junction, at the intersection of Orangethorpe Avenue and Van Buren Street. Two people died in the crash and twenty-two were seriously injured.^{[citation needed]}
• May 2, 2002 – Firdale, Manitoba, Canada: An eastbound CN train collides with a trailer; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, benzene, glycol and hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 residents.^{[citation needed]}
• May 10, 2002 – Potters Bar rail crash, north of London, England, United Kingdom: a northbound train derails at high speed; 7 die, 11 seriously injured.
• May 13, 2002 – Jaunpur train crash, 12 people die when a passenger train derails and crashes in Uttar Pradesh. It is insinuated that the train was sabotaged.
• May 25, 2002 – Tenga, Mozambique: In an accident reminiscent of Armagh 1889, passenger carriages, separated from a train also carrying freight, run away and smash into a cement train, killing 200.
• June 13, 2002 – Alawwa train crash, Sri Lanka: Train derails whilst coming into Alawwa station, killing 14 people.^[6]
• July 20, 2002 – The Palermo–Venice train derails in Rometta Marea, Messina, Italy, killing eight people.^[13]
• May 28, 2002 – Clarendon, Texas United States: A BNSF Railway coal train exceeded its movement authority under an “after-arrival” track warrant while the engineer was making a personal cell phone call, and collided head-on with a BNSF intermodal train. All four crew members jumped from their trains before impact and were injured, the intermodal engineer fatally.^{[citation needed]}
• June 24, 2002 – Igandu train disaster, Tanzania: Nearly 300 die when a passenger train rolls backwards into a goods train.
• July 29, 2002 – Kensington, Maryland, United States: The eastbound Amtrak Capitol Limited, train 30, while traversing a CSX route, strikes a sun kink at 1:55 PM while traveling at 60 mph (100 km/h) near milepost 11.78. Several cars go down an embankment and four Superliners overturn against trees. 16 people are seriously injured and 79 people suffer from minor injuries. The misalignment was determined to be caused by an improperly tamped ballast and excessive speed in the 96°F (35°C) sunny weather. "Slow orders" were imposed on passenger trains in the area on very hot days following this accident.^{[citation needed]}
• September 9, 2002 – Bad Münder, Germany: Two freight trains collide head-on after a brake failure on one of the trains. A tank car loaded with 1-Chlor-2,3-epoxypropan explodes, contaminating the station and exposing 96 firemen to carcinogenic fumes.^[14]
• September 9, 2002 – Rafiganj rail disaster. Over 130 die when a passenger train derails and falls into the Dhave River in Bihar because of sabotaged tracks.^[15]
• September 27, 2002 – Jamaica, NY: Three cars of a JFK Airtrain test train derail near Federal Circle. The train's lone occupant, a train operator testing the automated equipment, is crushed to death by the cement blocks inside the first car. The cement blocks were used to evenly distribute the weight inside the car, simulating the weight of customers when in passenger service. When the train derailed, the cement blocks collapsed onto the operator.^[16]
• October 13, 2002 – Benalla level crossing collision, Victoria, Australia. A heritage train hauled by K class steam locomotive K 183 collides with a B-Double truck that had failed to clear the level crossing. The impact causes the locomotive to derail, rolling onto its side, and the locomotive's tender to be forced into the locomotive's cab. Of the four people in the cab at the time of the collision, three are killed and one critically injured.^[17]
• November 6, 2002 – Nancy, France: A fire broke out in the front two carriages of an overnight sleeper train heading from Paris to Vienna. 12 passengers died of smoke inhalation, 9 were injured.^[18]
• December 21, 2002 – Kurnool train crash, 20 die when a passenger train derails in Andhra Pradesh, the result of sabotage.

2003

• January 3, 2003 – Ghatnandur train crash, 18 people die in the collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra^[19]

• January 31, 2003 – Waterfall train disaster, Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffers a heart attack and dies; the train speeds out of control and derails on a curve, overturning several cars and killing 6 passengers.
• February 2, 2003 – Dete train crash, Zimbabwe: Two trains collide, derailing and catching fire, killing over 40.^[20]
• February 3, 2003 – Broadmeadows train runaway & crash, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: An unmanned electric suburban train rolled away from Broadmeadows Station and ran for 16.848 kilometres at speeds in excess of 100kmh through many pedestrian and level crossings before crashing into a stationary Diesel passenger train at Southern Cross Station derailing both. More through luck than anything else, no injuries resulted from this incident.^[21]
• February 18, 2003 – Daegu subway fire, South Korea: A mentally ill man starts a fire which engulfs two subway trains, killing some 200.
• March 1, 2003 – Chiayi, Taiwan: A brake system malfunction aboard a train on the Alishan Forest Railway causes the driver to lose control and the train plummets into a goose. 17 die, 173 injured.^{[citation needed]}
• March 20, 2003 – Roermond, Netherlands: The driver of an NS passenger train has a heart attack, runs through a red signal, collides head-on with a freight train; the driver is killed, six passengers are seriously injured. After passing a distant signal at danger the automatic safety system did not enforce a deceleration large enough to prevent a collision.^[22]
• May 9, 2003 – Siófok, Hungary: A German tourist bus disregards the crossing signal. A fast train from Budapest to Nagykanizsa hits the bus. 33 tourists are killed.^{[citation needed]}
• May 15, 2003 – Ladhowal train fire, A passenger train catches fire, 38 die near Ladhowal in the Punjab.^[23]
• June 3, 2003, Albacete train crash – 19 die when a TALGO train and a freight train collide head-on in Albacete, Southern Spain.^[24]
• June 11, 2003 – 6 die and 25 are injured when two passenger trains collide head-on near Schrozberg, Germany.^[25]
• June 20, 2003 – Commerce, California: A runaway Union Pacific freight train carrying lumber derails in the Los Angeles suburb, destroying several homes and rupturing natural gas lines.^[26]
• June 23, 2003 – Vaibhavwadi rail disaster: 51 die when a special holiday train derails in Maharashtra, India.
• July 2, 2003 – Warangal train crash: 22 die when a train's brakes fail and it falls off a bridge into a crowded fish market in Warangal, India.
• July 7, 2003 – Between Evesham and Pershore, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, a First Great Western train collides with a minibus on a level crossing, killing 3 people in the minibus.^[27]
• August 3, 2003 – Kent, England, United Kingdom: Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway steam train hits car driven across level crossing. Steam train driver killed, car driver with passenger and some train passengers injured.
• October 12, 2003 – Chicago, Illinois, United States: A Metra train carrying 350 passengers derails after engineer ignores warning signals telling him to slow down for a track change and continues travelling 73 miles per hour over a 10 mph switch. Front engine rolled onto side and caught fire. Almost 100 persons injured. Engineer is not terminated and continues to work for Metra. Occurred in the same spot and for the same reasons as the 2005 Metra crash.^{[citation needed]}
• October 14 – at Yingge, Taipei County, Taiwan, a bus carrying students on a field trip collides with a south-bound train, killing 4 and injuring 42.^{[citation needed]}

• November 26 - Matadi-Kinshasa Railway - a train ran off the line in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was damaged in the bin, officially causing 10 dead.

2004

• March 11, 2004 – 2004 Madrid train bombings: 191 die when bombs are detonated on four commuter trains in Madrid.^[28]
• April 22, 2004 – Ryongchon disaster, North Korea: 161 killed and more than 1000 injured when an explosion takes place.
• February 15, 2004 – Tebay rail accident, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom: A sleeper (railroad tie) transporter trolley with defective brakes carrying 16 tonnes of rails became detached from a maintenance train south of Penrith and rolled down the falling gradient until it struck and killed 4 workmen in a team repairing the line at Tebay, between Oxenholme and Penrith. The owner of the sleeper transporter truck (a contractor working for Network Rail) is prosecuted. (Source- The Metro newspaper (UK), March 2006).
• February 18, 2004 Iran, Neishabour train explosion, Nishapur train disaster[2]
• April 16, 2004- Temelli, Turkey: An overnight İzmir to Ankara express hits a truck in Temelli, near Ankara, as it crossed a level-crossing. 7 to 10 children die and 2 to 5 more injured according to various reports at the time.^[29]
• June 17, 2004 - Karanjadi train crash, near Matsyagandha,Mumbai, India: 20 die and 100 are injured when 10 carriages fall off a bridge during a monsoon-induced landslide.^[30]
• June 28, 2004 - Macdona, Texas, United States, near San Antonio: 3 die and 51 are injured when a Union Pacific Railroad train failed to stop at a signal and collided with another train, causing lethal chlorine gas to leak out of a train car. Two local residents living near the tracks were killed, as was the UP driver. Several other residents were seriously injured by the gas.^[31][32]
• July 23, 2004 - An Istanbul-Ankara express with 230 people on board, and carriages overturned with derailed at Pamukova, Sakarya Province, Turkey, according to Turkish government official confirmed, killing at least 38, injuring another 80.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]}
• August 4, 2004 – Near Tavsancil, Turkey: 6 die and 85 injured when a train driver falls asleep at the controls, goes through a red light and hits a stationary train head-on.^{[citation needed]}
• September 10, 2004 – Nosaby, near Kristianstad, Skåne, Sweden: A heavy truck is caught between the barriers at a level crossing, and is hit by a passenger train. Two aboard the train die, 47 are injured. The truck driver was found guilty of not attempting to move the vehicle away from the level crossing, and was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment^[41].
• October 23, 2004 – Nagaoka, Niigata: During the Chūetsu Earthquake Eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jōetsu Shinkansen were derailed. None of the 154 passengers were killed or injured.
• November 3, 2004 – Washington, D.C., United States: An out-of-service Washington Metro train rolls backwards into the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station, and hits a revenue train servicing the station. No one dies, 20 people are injured. The National Transportation Safety Board [RAR-06/01] determined that the probable cause was the failure of the operator of the out-of-service train to apply the brakes to stop the train, likely due to his reduced alertness.^{[citation needed]}
• November 6, 2004 – Ufton Nervet rail crash, England, United Kingdom: A High Speed Train hits a stationary car on a level crossing (an apparent suicide) at 100 mph and derails. Five train passengers and the drivers of both the train and the car die; over 100 passengers are injured.
• November 10, 2004 – Ankara, Turkey: 37 die when an express train hits a truck on a crossing near Ankara and derailed.^{[citation needed]}
• November 14, 2004 – Ankara, Turkey: 15 die and 45 injured as another express train derails near Ankara.^{[citation needed]}
• November 15, 2004 – Cairns Tilt Train derailment, Berajondo (near Bundaberg), Queensland, Australia: The world's fastest narrow-gauge train derails at 112 km/h. Nobody is killed or permanently injured. The accident has been blamed on the train travelling too fast on a curved line.
• November 29, 2004 – Richland, Florida: Two CSX freight trains collide in early morning fog at Vitis Junction, killing one and injuring three.^[42]
• December 26, 2004 – Queen of the Sea rail disaster, Telwatta, Sri Lanka: Approximately 1700 die in the world's worst rail disaster as a train is overwhelmed by a tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

2005

• January 6, 2005 – Graniteville train disaster, Graniteville, South Carolina, United States: 9 people (including the engineer) were killed and over 250 were injured when a 42-car Norfolk Southern freight train collided head-on with a stopped local near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville. 16 cars were derailed in this accident, including a tank car that ruptured 90 tons of chlorine gas into the air, leading to the deaths and injuries that occurred during this accident. The cause of the accident was the failure to reline the switch for mainline operations.^[43]
• January 7, 2005 – A passenger train running from Verona to Bologna fails to stop at a red light and collides frontally with a freight train, near Crevalcore. There was thick fog at the time of the accident.^[44] 17 die.^[45]
• January 12, 2005 – Fort St. John, Winnipeg. 5 cars of a CN propane tanker train de-rail, causing a major evacuation.^{[citation needed]}
• January 17, 2005 – Bangkok- only 140 injured passengers, resulting from a collision of 2 metro trains in the new MRT Blue-line.^{[citation needed]}
• January 26, 2005 – Glendale train crash, California, United States: In what was originally thought to be a failed suicide attempt by an automobile driver, a southbound Metrolink double-deck commuter train collides with a vehicle that had been driven onto the tracks and derails; the derailed train strikes the northbound Metrolink train on the other track and a parked Union Pacific Railroad freight train on a siding. 11 people are killed, about 100 injured.
• February 3, 2005 – Nagpur level crossing disaster, India: A tractor-trailer carrying a wedding party is hit by a train. 55 wedding guests die.
• February 9, 2005 – Riga, Latvia: A Lielvarde-Riga passenger train collided with empty stock heading for Riga train depot, killing four people and injuring 32. Official report stated that the conductor had missed the red signal.^[46]
• February 28, 2005 – A chlorine tanker train derails due to brake failure after they were wrongly set to "empty". The line was closed for 2 weeks.^{[citation needed]}
• April 14, 2005 – Solon Springs, Wisconsin: 19 cars of a CN train derail and cause a forest fire.^{[citation needed]}
• April 15, 2005 – in Bratislava-Petržalka railway station in the 11.00, the Austrian ÖBB railway company's international train IC 402 Gerlach Bratislava-Vienna hits a car - 1 member injured.^{[citation needed]}
• April 21, 2005 – Vadodara rail collision, India: collision between freight and passenger express train; 18 are killed.

• April 25, 2005 – Amagasaki rail crash, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan: A train derailed on sharp curve and smashed into an apartment building. 107 die, 549 are injured. Investigation showed the driver was speeding because of a slight delay.
• April 26, 2005 – Polgahawela level crossing collision, Sri Lanka: a bus tries to beat the train at a level crossing; at least 35 die, all on the bus.^{[citation needed]}
• May 5, 2005 – Galt, Illinois, United States - A Union Pacific train derails and destroys the 140 ft Transcontinental mainline bridge at Elkhorn creek.^[47]
• May 9, 2005 – Biaora, India: 8 die when a bullock cart is hit at a level-crossing in Biaora.^{[citation needed]}
• May 19, 2005 – Bandar Lampung, Indonesia: A passenger train from Palembang crashes in to another passenger train at Bandar Lampung station and derails. 7 children die and just under 200 were injured. Human error was blamed for the accident and many of the dead were passengers clinging on to the sides of the Palembang train. The Indonesian government begins a crack down on people clinging on to the exteriors of trains as a means of travel.^[48][49]
• June 12, 2005 – between Uzunovo and Bogatishchevo, Russia: At 0710 a bomb explodes derailing the locomotive and first four passenger cars of the Grozny-Moscow train. Investigators found wires leading from the explosion site to a control panel and hideout about 50 m from the site.^[50]
• June 16, 2005 – Between Zubtsov and Aristovo in Tver Oblast of Russia: 27 of 60 fuel oil tankers bound from Moscow to Riga derail, about 300 tonnes of fuel leaks. The train was going at 70 km/h. 641 metres of track were destroyed and the Volga River was briefly contaminated. The crash was blamed on poor track maintenance.^[51][52]
• June 21, 2005 – Revadim, Israel: A Beersheba-bound passenger train collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim, about 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of Tel Aviv. At least 7 die and more than 200 are injured.^[53]
• June 30, 2005 – Indonesia: 2 die and 80 injured after a passenger train between Bogor and Jakata ploughed into the back of another train that was waiting in the station after a previous train had broken down outside the same station. Heavy rain was blamed for reducing visibility and most of the dead were seated on the train's roof.^{[citation needed]}
• July 7, 2005 – London, England, United Kingdom: A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52, plus four suicide bombers. (See 7 July 2005 London bombings)
• July 10, 2005 – Kent, England, United Kingdom: Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway steam train hits car driven across level crossing. Steam train driver killed, car driver and train passengers uninjured.
• July 13, 2005 – Ghotki rail crash, Ghotki, Pakistan: A chain reaction accident caused by one train missing a signal and colliding into another results in three trains crashed and over 150 people dead.
• July 14, 2005 – Gliwice, Poland crashed two truck train in the railway stations entry, one motorman killed, one motorman seriously wounded.^{[citation needed]}
• July 26, 2005 – Vienna rail crash - passenger train of the ÖBB crashed of the cargo train, injuring 43.
• July 28, 2005 – Jaunpur train bombing, Janpur, India: A bomb explodes on a train in Uttar Pradesh, killing 13.
• July 31, 2005 – Shenyang, China: A train from Xi'an to Changchun passes a sabotaged railway signal and collides with a freight train, killing 5 passengers. Officials state that some wiring was stolen from a nearby signal box causing the signal to malfunction.^[54]
• August 1, 2005 – Kilkis, Greece: a truck driver is struck by a train on a crossing and dies. The driver ignored crossing warnings.^[55]
• August 2, 2005 – Raleigh, North Carolina, United States: Two people are killed when their truck is hit by an Amtrak train. The driver bypassed safety barriers.^[56]
• August 5, 2005 – 2005 CN Rail Cheakamus River derailment, British Columbia: Nine cars of a CN Rail train derail into the Cheakamus River near Whistler British Columbia. 40,000 litres of caustic soda enter the river, killing over 500,000 fish and greatly damaging the surrounding ecosystem.^[57]
• September 17, 2005 – Chicago, Illinois, United States: A Metra commuter train traveling into Chicago derails, killing two and injuring 83.^{[citation needed]}
• October 3, 2005 – Datia train crash, Datia, Madhya Pradesh, India: 16 die when a train travelling at six times the speed limit derails.^[58]
• October 23, 2005 – Bari province, Apulia region, Italy. Eurostar Italia train 9410, running from Taranto to Milan, is derailed between Acquaviva delle Fonti and Sannicandro di Bari when subsidence due to heavy rain causes a bridge to collapse under it, leaving two bare rails spanning the 12 m deep ravine. The train completes the crossing and comes to rest with its rear end suspended over the void. Nobody dies.^[59][60]
• October, 26 - The passenger train Shosholoza Meyl collides head on with the stationary Blue Train at Deelfontein station just outside of De Aar in the Northern Cape. Both trains derail instantly but the Blue Train has much more damage than the Shosholoza Meyl. This partucular set of the Blue Train (they have two sets) stayed out of service for the next two years.
• October 29, 2005 – Veligonda rail disaster, Veligonda, Andhra Pradesh, India: At least 114 die and many more are injured when part of the track is swept away by a flood, causing a train to derail.^[61]
• November 23, 2005- At 6.30 am a train hit a truck on a level crossing between Tarsus and Mersin. 9 died and 18 were injured.^[62]
• November 26, 2005 – Moy near Inverness, Scotland. 9 are airlifted to hospital when a First ScotRail Class 170 DMU derails after hitting debris from a landslide caused by a local blizzard.^{[citation needed]}
• November 29, 2005 – Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo: Over 60 people are swept off the roof of a train by the beams of bridge in the Maniema province.^[63]
• December 25, 2005 – Shonai, Yamagata, Japan: According to Japanese Railroad official and NTV report, all 6 cars of Akita-Niigata Inaho express train derailed and three passenger cars crushed, 5 die and 32 are injured. Strong winter winds are thought to be the cause.^[64]

2006

• January 6, 2006 – Possum Point, Virginia, United Sates: - A broken CSX rail causes VRE Train #304 to derail at Possum Point. The last 3 cars of the 6 cars came off the track, but did not fall over. NTSB found that CSX failed to post speed restrictions and repair/replace the track in a timely fashion. There were only a few minor injuries.^[65]
• January 23, 2006 – Bioče train disaster: A passenger train crashes into a ravine near Podgorica, killing 46 and injuring 198.^[66]
• January 29, 2006 – A broken rail causes a derailment near Jhelum in the Punjab, killing 2 and injuring 29. Poor maintenance is officially being cited as cause of the accident, but sabotage was suspected by some authorities. The government inquiry later blamed defective and aging rails.^{[67][68][69][70][71][72][73]}
• February 16, 2006 – Serres, Greece: An inter-city train strikes a truck at a grade crossing near Serres and derails. A passenger and the truck driver die, and 20 on the train are injured.^{[citation needed]}
• February 17, 2006 – High winds derail six Canadian Pacific freight cars on the Saint-Laurent Railway Bridge between Montreal and Kahnawake, Quebec, leaving them dangling precariously over the water. It takes several days to remove the cars, disrupting rail service. [3] [4]
• March 10, 2006 – Hualien, Taiwan- 5 railroad workers die when hit by a southbound train.^{[citation needed]}
• March 13, 2006 – Austin, Texas, United States: Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, the reigning Miss Deaf Texas, is killed by the snowplow on a 65-car Union Pacific freight train while trespassing on the tracks and text-messaging her parents. The train sounded its horn repeatedly and attempted to apply the emergency brakes but could not stop in time.^[74]
• April 5, 2006 – Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, United States: Patrick Deans, 18, High School football player, struck and killed by a CSX freight train while trespassing on the tracks. Two CSX trains were passing at the time. Patrick was able to escape being struck by one, but was struck by the other.^[75]
• April 15, 2006 – Gubuck, Java: 13 die and 26 are injured as two trains collide and wreckage falls into a paddy field. One Swiss man was among the injured. Human error by the driver was officially blamed.^[76][77]
• April 28, 2006 – Victoria, Australia: A V/Line VLocity high-speed train is derailed when struck by an 18 wheeler truck, killing 2 and injuring 28 on the Ballarat to Ararat line.^[78]
• May 25, 2006 – Lismore, Victoria: truck fails to stop at level crossing, derailing trains and causing massive pileup of wagons.^[79] Mist/fog is factor.
• June 12, 2006 – Netanya, Israel: A passenger train from Tel Aviv to Haifa derails after colliding with a lorry on a level crossing, killing 5 and injuring more than 100.^[80]
• June 14, 2006- Madera, California: 2 BNSF Railway Freight trains collide head-on due to one of the trains running a red signal. One of the train's crews, the one that ran the red, was suspected to be high on cocaine. One of locomotives happened to be video recording, and the video is now widely seen on Youtube and related sites.^[81][82]

• July 3, 2006 – Valencia metro accident in Valencia, Spain: A Valencia Metro train derails after leaving Jesús station, killing 41 and injuring at least 47. The records of the train's black box show that the train passed a bend where the speed is limited to 40 km/h at 80 km/h.^[83][84]
• July 11, 2006 – A series of bomb attacks strikes commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing at least 200.^[85]
• July 11, 2006 – A train collided with crowded bus at an unmanned railroad crossing at Akkelpur, Jaipurhat, Bangladesh, killing at least 33, another 30 are injured. Local official blamed for a bus was draged along for several yard by the train aftermath collision.^{[citation needed]}
• July 14, 2006 – Luxembourg: A man sets a newspaper alight on board a train, resulting in a fire that injures 31, with 7 suffering critical injuries. The culprit is suspected to have a mental disorder.^[86]
• August 18, 2006 two carriages catch fire on the Chennai-Hyderabad Express near Secundrabad station^[87]
• August 21, 2006 – Egypt: Two trains collide in the town of Qalyoub, 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Cairo, killing 57 people and injuring 128.^[88]
• August 21, 2006 – Spain: A speeding eastbound RENFE intercity train derails in Villada, 40 km west of Palencia, leaving six people dead and 36 injured.^[89][90]
• August 27, 2006 – Zimbabwe: 5 die in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train 30 km south of Victoria Falls.^[91]
• September 4, 2006 – Egypt: A passenger train collides with a freight train north of Cairo, killing five and injuring 30.^[92][93]

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• September 22, 2006 – Lathen, Emsland, Germany: 21 passengers and two maintenance workers die and many more are injured when a German Transrapid train collides with a maintenance of way vehicle on the system's test track near the Netherlands border. See also: 2006 Lathen maglev train accident.^{[94][95][96][97]}

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• October 11, 2006 – 2006 Zoufftgen rail crash, near Metz, France: Passenger and freight trains collide head-on at Zoufftgen, Moselle, close to the Luxembourg border. 5, including the drivers of both trains, die and 20 are injured.^[98] The accident is ascribed to human error in the controlling signalling centre in Luxembourg.
• October 17, 2006 – Rome Metro collision, Italy: Two metro trains collide at Rome's Vittorio Emanuele metro station, killing at least one person and injuring around 60.^[99]
• October 20, 2006 – New Brighton, PA - A Norfolk Southern unit train of tank cars containing ethanol derails on a bridge over the Beaver River. The resulting fire burns for days and forces some evacuations.^[100][101]
• November 9, 2006 – India- 40 die and 15 injured in a West Bengal rail accident.^{[citation needed]}
• November 9, 2006 – Baxter, California - Six cars of a runaway maintenance train derail, killing two of the crew.^[102][103]
• November 13, 2006 – South Africa - A Metrorail train smashes into a truck carrying farm workers at a level crossing near Somerset West, killing 27.^[104]
• November 20, 2006 – India- A bomb explodes on a train near Belacoba station in West Bengal, India, killing 7 and injuring 53. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.^[105]
• November 20, 2006 - A train passes a red signal causing a head-on collision in Rotterdam. The passenger train was empty and none were injured, but there was extensive damage to the rail track and its overhead power lines^[106]
• November 21, 2006 – Arnhem, Netherlands - A train passes a red signal causing a head-on collision.^[107]
• November 24, 2006 – Drniš, Croatia - A HŽ ICN tilting train number 521 collided with a lorry loaded with Knauf cement boards at the railroad crossing that wasn't equipped with ramp or warning lights. Train engineer was killed instantly, while lorry driver sustained severe injuries, but has survived. Train composition suffered major damage and was subsequently written off the Croatian Railways' rolling stock.^[108]
• November 30, 2006 – North Baltimore, OH - 15 cars carrying steel derailed when the train inadvertently switched to a side track. These cars then impacted a coal train on a parallel set of tracks, causing four of its cars to also derail. The PUCO blamed the accident on a chain hanging from one of the rolling stock, which engaged a switch handle on the tracks, causing a shift of the rails. Three people who were in vehicles waiting for the train to pass were injured as a result of the accident, none seriously.^[109][110]
• December 1, 2006 – Bihar, India - Bhágalpur in the Ganges a portion of the 150-year-old 'Ulta Pul' bridge being dismantled collapsed over a passing train of India's Eastern Railways, killing 35 and injuring 17.^[111][112]
• December 13, 2006 – Avio, Italy, a freight train operated by Trenitalia ignores a red signal and crashes on a freight train of the private company Rail Traction Company. Two Trenitalia engineers die in the violent crash^[113]
• In the industrial zone of Cuautitlán in Mexico City, 24 people lost lives on December 28 when their bus collided with a 36-wagon freight train. Another 12 passengers were hurt. Police arrested the bus driver who reportedly tried to flee the scene.^{[citation needed]}

2007

• January 4, 2007 – Hatay Province, Turkey: A freight train smashes into a truck carrying farm workers at a railroad crossing in Hatay Province, Turkey, killing 7 and injuring 19.^[114]
• January 10, 2007 – Woburn, MA - A MBTA Commuter train crashes into a work crew, killing two members of the crew and injuring 3 other crew members. Additionally 40 passengers on the train were also injured^{[citation needed]}
• January 16, 2007 – Central Java, Indonesia: The Senja Bengawan train derails, leading to five fatalities.^[115]
• February 6, 2007 – Hungary: Train collision between Almásfüzítő and Komárom stations. An EU Regio passenger train hit the end of a freight with speed of 101 km/h. The driver of the passenger train has died, 4 passengers injured.^{[citation needed]}
• February 19, 2007 – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings Deewana, near Panipat, Haryana State, India: At least 68 die in a suspected bomb blast on the Delhi-Attari Special train (the "Friendship Express") near Deewana, about 80 km north of Delhi, at around 23:55 local time.^[116][117]

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• February 23, 2007 – Grayrigg rail crash, United Kingdom: A Virgin trains Pendolino service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derails at Grayrigg Cottage near Oxenholme, Cumbria. One woman dies. A set of points is thought to be the cause of the accident; the West Coast Main Line is closed for several days.^[118]
• February 28, 2007 – A wind blows 10 passenger rail cars off the track near Turpan, China, killing 3 passengers and seriously injuring 2 others.^[119][120]
• March 6, 2007 – A freight train collide with Diivarasekwa-Mbare regular route bus at rail crossing, outskirt of Harare, Zimbabwe, killing 34, another 30 are injured.^{[citation needed]}
• April 16, 2007 – A passenger train crashes into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India, killing 11 and injuring another 12 in the vehicle. Seven of the injured were hospitalized in serious condition. The vehicle was carrying 23 people.^{[citation needed]}
• May 2, 2007 – 32 passengers injured as "Stolichniy Express" high-speed train derails near Kiev, Ukraine. Sabotage has been suspected but investigation revealed that technicians tried and failed to quick-repair a switch in front of approaching train.
• June 5, 2007 – Kerang train crash, Victoria, Australia. A B-Double truck collided with a Melbourne-bound passenger train 6 kilometres north of Kerang at the Murray Valley Highway level crossing, killing 11 rail passengers and injuring 23.
• June 14, 2006 - Hrvatski Leskovac, Croatia - A HŽ commuter train bound from Zagreb to Karlovac collided with the lorry on the railroad crossing. Lorry driver was killed instantly, while the train engineer died during the rescue workers' attempt to get him out of the wreckage. The crash was caused by the lorry driver who ignored light and bell warning about the incoming train. Train conductor sustained minor injuries. The locomotive suffered major structural damage and was written off the rolling stock.^[121]
• June 15, 2007 – Two trains collided on the Italian island of Sardinia, killing 3.^[122]
• July 4, 2007 – A rail worker was killed by train numbered D1 near Jialing railway station. He only saw the up train numbered T48 but did not see the down train numbered D1 from the other direction.^{[citation needed]}
• July 16–17, 2007 – Two Amtrak Silver Star trains on the Tampa to Miami route crash into automobiles and derail in two separate instances, one in Lakeland and one in Plant City. Four people were killed in the first wreck; one was killed in the second accident. The casualties were in the cars that collided with the trains; nobody on either train was seriously injured.^[123]
• July 16, 2007 – 15 carriages from a train carrying yellow phosphor derail and catch fire, releasing toxic fumes affecting 14 villages in a 90 km² area.^[124]
• July 30 - Train crash in Caracas subway leaves 1 dead, 6 injured. Two subway trains collide in Venezuela's capital. The accident took place in a tunnel near the Plaza Sucre station in western Caracas, Civil Protection chief Antonio Rivero said. Subways are generally equipped with ATP and ATC so such an accident is hard to explain.^{[citation needed]}

• August 1, 2007 – Benaleka, Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A passenger train derails killing about 100 people and injuring more than 200 others, many riding on the roof.^{[125][126][127][128]} Brake failure.

• August 7, 2007 – 32 passengers injured as Jodhpur-Howrah Express derails near Juhi Bridge, Kanpur, India.
• August 24, 2007 – Two persons died, five are injured when a locomotive and a freight train collide near Čortanovci, Serbia.^[129]
• August 30, 2007 – 8 passengers killed and 80 injured when a commuter train collides with an empty train at Nova Iguaçu, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[130]
• August 2007 - Mweka, Congo - a freight train derailed killing about 100 people who had been riding illegally on the wagons.

• October 3, 2007 – Moving over the CSX east coast main line, the Amtrak Silver Meteor collided into a tractor-trailer after it attempted to cross a grade crossing in Port Wentworth, GA. No serious injuries were reported.^[131]
• October 10, 2007 – 2007 Painesville, Ohio train derailment, A CSX train, Q380-09 carrying ethanol and butane derails in Painesville and Painesville Township, Ohio, causing an evacuation and fire that took several days to burn out. Broken rail suspected as cause.
• October 13, 2007 – 4 killed, over 50 injured when rear carriages of Probhati Express derails near Dhaka, Bangladesh.^{[citation needed]}
• October 22, 2007 – Train carrying Gasoline derails in Middlebury, Vermont causing an evacuation. At least one car caught fire and several others were leaking gasoline into Otter Creek (Vermont).^[132]
• October 25, 2007 – A 15 year old boy is killed by a high speed train in Solna while illegally crossing the railway.^[133]
• October 29, 2007 – BNSF Railway two-train derailment in Clara City, Minnesota; A hydrochloric acid spill, prompting the evacuation of about 350 people.^[134]
• November 3, 2007 – 2 KTX trains collided inside Busan Station, with no casualties.^[135]
• November 9, 2007 – CSX train derailment in District of Columbia dumps 10 rail cars of coal in the Anacostia River. Improperly secured, free-rolling cut of hoppers from Bennington Yard rolls onto out-of-service bridge, which collapses.^[136]
• November 30, 2007 – Amtrak train No. 371, the Pere Marquette, strikes last car of COFC freight train on Norfolk Southern, ex-PRR line, near 65th Street in Chicago. Two people in the cab of P-42DC No. 8 are injured, and many passengers shaken up, including three critical, but crumple zone design of locomotive is effective and prevents worse results. Engineer was running approximately 40 mph in a 15 mph zone due to confusion about the meaning of a signal.^{[citation needed]}
• December 19, 2007 – Mehrabpur train derailment, Mehrabpur, Pakistan: A crowded passenger express train derails down an embankment 200 km north-east of Karachi at about 2:20 am PST, killing 35 people and injuring about 269, 10 critically.

2008

• January 23, 2008 – When passenger train numbered D59 high-speed train Beijing-Solar Flare:RE plunged into a state owned construction zone where 16th Group workers started safety maintenance of a stretch track at Fangzi, Weifang, Shandong, China, killing 18 workers, injuring another nine.^{[citation needed]}
• January 25, 2008 – Amtrak train 91, the Silver Star, collided with a garbage truck sitting on the tracks on CR 427 in Longwood, Florida while waiting for the traffic light to change at the intersection next to the crossing. The two occupants of the garbage truck were not wearing seat belts and were ejected; one was seriously injured and the other was killed. There were no injuries on the train .^{[citation needed]}
• January 25, 2008 – Amtrak train 1, the Sunset Limited, collided with a semi truck in north-east Harris County, Texas. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.^{[citation needed]}
• January 27, 2008 – A Pamukkale Express bound for Denizli, with 436 passengers on board derailed after two cars rolled over at Kutahya due to ice on the tracks in western Turkey, killing nine, and injuring another 50.^{[citation needed]}
• February 1, 2008 – East Midlands Connect service from Nottingham to Norwich involved in an incident at Barrow-on-Soar. The train hit a footbridge that was in its path, after a road vehicle had struck and damaged the bridge causing it to be foul of the line. Six passengers were on board the service and the driver had to be cut free from the driving cab.^[137]
• February 4, 2008 – According to Chinese press report, A 17 car freight train derailed, crushing several houses at Qujing, Kunming-Guizhou Line, Yunnan, China, killing at least six.^{[citation needed]}
• February 5, 2008. – Two people died and 1 was injured in a so-called 'fatal chain reaction accident' at a fog-obscured rail crossing in Boswell, about 30 miles west of Lafayette, Indiana. The crash involved 6 vehicles and a 50 car train. The rural crossing has seen 5 other crashes, 2 of which were fatal, since 1984. A major FRA safety review is now planned for this accident hot-spot. The 2 other fatalities were on- October 10, 1984 and February 7, 1986 between a train and a truck, in which both truck drivers and the truck's passenger in the 1984 crash died.^[138][139]
• February 29, 2008. – Nine people became victims of fire in Bulgarian State Railways' train No.2637. The night train was travelling from Sofia to the north-eastern town of Kardam in Dobrich region. The fire started in a couchette carriage, which had 35 people in it at the time, and then spread to a sleeping coach with 27 people. It broke out as the train was entering the town of Cherven bryag, around midnight, and took more than three hours to extinguish. Among the victims of the fire was the Rasho Rashev, the director of Bulgaria's National Archaeological Institute. Bulgarian government declared March 5 a day of mourning in memory of the victims of the deadly fire.^[140][141]
• March 1 - containers blown off train by wind between Tring and Cheddington; also Shap ^[142]
• March 9, 2008 – Outskirts of Dolores, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina -- a El Rápido Argentino bus going from Mar de Ajó to San Miguel (Greater Buenos Aires) disregards the active warning devices on the railroad crossing of Provincial Highway 63, colliding with a Ferrobaires passenger train going from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata, killing 17, and injuring 40 people.^[143][144]
• March 25, 2008 – Canton, MA - A MBTA train crashes into a runaway box car at Canton Junction station injuring 150 people onboard.^{[citation needed]}
• April 16, 2008 – According to ATN Bangla television report, a Dinajpur-Dhaka Ekoto Express train collided with a local bus on a level crossing at outskirt of Kalihati, Tangail, Bangladesh, killing 18 and injuring 30.^{[citation needed]}
• April 26, 2008 – Collision between a InterCityExpress train and a herd of sheep that had wandered onto the tracks at the mouth of the Landrückentunnel, Germany's longest rail tunnel on the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line near Fulda. The train came to a stop 1300 m into the tunnel, 19 of the train's 135 passengers were lightly injured, four people suffered fractures.^[145]
• April 28, 2008 – 2008 China Railway train T195 accident It has been reported that train No. T195 carrying approximately 1200 passengers from Beijing to Qingdao derailed at approximately 4:38am and was then hit by the No.5034 (Yantai to Xuzhou) passenger train at approximately 4:41am, also with approximately 1200 passengers aboard. The incident occurred at a section of temporary detour tracks Zhoucun-Wangcun, Hejiacun, on the outskirts of Zibo, Shandong, China, while the original tracks were being upgraded. The detour tracks had a lower speed limit of 80 km/h, but the speed limit failed to be delivered to T195's operation monitor system or driver, and the driver was following the regular speed limit, so T195 was running at the regular speed of 131 km/h before it derailed. It was reported that fourteen passenger cars had been crushed, 72 people had been killed and 416 injured.

• April, 2008 - Larissa, Greece - passenger train derails; 28 of 174 passengers injured ^[146]

• May 4, 2008 – According to Thai National Railroad and MCOT television network report, a Sungai Kolok-Pattaluna passenger train carrying 400 passengers onboard derailed at outskirts of Sungai Kolok, Songkhla, Thailand, killing one and injuring 30.^{[citation needed]}
• May 5, 2008 – According to Sudanese newspaper Al-Ray al-Am web site report, a 20 car freight train carrying illegal passengers, and including Kordofan University students derailed at outskirts of Al-Foula, South Kordofan, Sudan, killing 14 and injuring 28.^[147]
• May 10, 2008 – Romanian National Railway Company (CFR) passenger train No 1661 going from Bucharest to Iasi derailed near station Valea Calugareasca (Prahova county), around 16:55 local time (EET) while travelling at a speed of 68 km/h. There was a maximum speed limit on that sector of 70 km/h. A 17 year old girl died and 4 other persons were injured. The locomotive and 3 train cars were thrown off the lines. 2 of the cars were severely damaged. The cause of the accident is supposed to be a defective switch.^{[148][citation needed]}
• May 14, 2008 – According to ATN Bangla television report, an Upaban Express train rammed into the rear of Noakhali Express train at Ashuganj station, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, killing 8 and injuring 100.^{[citation needed]}

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• May 16, 2008 Ottumwa, Iowa. A local man is killed after being struck by a train at a level crossing, At least six people had seen the pedestrian on one track at around 5 p.m., waiting for a train on the other track to pass. They said he apparently didn’t see the second train coming up behind him, traveling along the track on which he stood.^{[citation needed]}
• May 28, 2008 – Boston MBTA Green Line D Train crashed into the rear of another train on the same line in Newton, Massachusetts between Woodland and Waban "T" stops. Driver of rear train killed, 12 others injured.^{[citation needed]}
• June 23, 2008 – A freight train rammed into a minibus at a level crossing in Nurdagi, Gaziantep, Turkey, killing 11 bus passengers.^{[citation needed]}
• July 16, 2008 – At least 44 are killed and 33 injured when a truck failed to stop at level crossing and pushed into two vehicles with a Matruh-Alexandrea passenger train, where crushing a locomotive engine with several passenger cars at Marsa Matruh, Dabaa, Egypt.^[149]
• July 19, 2008 An Arriva Trains Wales Class 158 train crashed into a tractor on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line^[150]
• August 1, 2008 – According Indian Railroad official, NDTV and Zee News report, a Secunderabad-Kakinada nightly Gautami Express with 360 passengers caught fire at Tallapusalapalli-Mehboobabad, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, killing at least thirty-two passengers.^{[citation needed]}
• August 4, 2008 An Arriva Trains Wales Class 158 train 158821 strikes a woman on the Welsh Marches Line near Crewe railway station whilst working the 05:50 Carmarthen to Manchester Piccadilly. Service terminates at Crewe. The woman was left with serious injuries to her leg.^{[citation needed]}
• August 8, 2008 – Studenka Train Disaster - an express train EC 108 Comenius from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic travelling at 140 km/h crashed around 10:30 local time (GMT+1) into a section of a bridge undergoing construction that had fallen onto the track. 7 people were killed and 67 injured in the accident.^[151][152]
• August 15, 2008 – At least nine died and injuring sixty-seven, when a KA Limex Express from Palembang head-on collided with a freight train carrying natural coal at approaching Bandar Lampung railroad station, southern Sumatra, Indonesia.^{[citation needed]}

• August 16, 2008, According to RTÉ News and Independent on Sunday, torrential rains lead to a landslide which causes a packed passenger train to derail in Portarlington Co Laois, fortunately nobody is injured.
• August 22, 2008 – At least two died and injuring forty-seven, when a Tua-Mirandela local passenger train with fifty-nine peoples on board, where off the rail and plunged into Tua River, near Brunheda, Braganca, Portugal.^{[citation needed]}
• August 22, 2008 – One person is killed, when hit by a commuter train near Petone, Wellington .^{[citation needed][153]}
• September 12, 2008 – One railroad driver and another man died, two trains collided in front of Heidelberg Cement Company Bicaz factory at Tasca, Neamt County, Romania, in an incident caused by brake failure.^{[citation needed]}
• September 12, 2008 – 2008 Chatsworth train collision, California, United States: A northbound Metrolink (Southern California) double-deck commuter train runs a red light and collides head-on with a Union Pacific Railroad freight train pulled by three engines at about 60 mph and derails; the 220-ton derailed Metrolink engine is knocked 30 feet backwards into a 119-ton passenger car, crushing it in half. At least 26 people are killed and about 135 are injured.^[154][155]
• September 24, 2008 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: two RapidKL LRT trains collide about 200m from the Bukit Jalil LRT station. A carriage of one of the trains involved in the accident hit the rear of the other train. Four passengers were injured in this accident.
• October 6, 2008 – 2008 Monorierdő train collision: Four people have died and 26 injured in a collision between two passenger trains near Budapest, Hungary.
• October 6, 2008 – A Mendip Rail freight train was hit from behind by a runaway train near Great Elm on the private line from Whatley Quarry, Somerset. There were no serious injuries.^[156][157]
• October 11, 2008 – Thalys trainset 4536 running between Paris and Amsterdam Centraal collided with a Koploper ICM unit near Gouda. A steam train hauled by a BR 23 2-6-2 locomotive made a successful emergency stop. The route set for the steam train would have taken it into the path of the collision.^[158]
• October 14, 2008 – A late night CSX Transportation train derailed in Decatur, Alabama, killing its conductor.^[159]
• October 15, 2008 – The 14:05 Cross Country service from Edinburgh Waverley to Bristol Temple Meads strikes and kills a person near Newcastle upon Tyne.^{[citation needed]}
• November 7, 2008 –An 18-year-old woman lost part of an arm when she fell between a train and the platform at Wokingham Station in Berkshire.^[160]
• November 18, 2008 – A Connex Melbourne express train collides with a car in Dandenong South, Victoria, killing the car's 53-year-old female occupant after she failed to stop at an active level crossing.^[161]
• November 20, 2008 – A Belgian freight train derailed near Amsterdam Centraal. Services were disrupted for about ten days, 400 meters of track were damaged.^{[citation needed]}
• November 22, 2008 – A BNSF freight train derailed east of Clarendon, Texas along U.S. Highway 287.^[162]
• November 27, 2008 – Two people are killed and several others injured after a QR Tilt Train collided with a truck on the Bruce Highway level crossing about 20 km south of Cardwell, Queensland.^[163]
• December 23, 2008 – Ventspils, Latvia: A fuel cargo train crashed into a stationary train, killing two. Ten fuel tankers flared up.^[164]
• December 31, 2008 – A 115-car Canadian National Railway freight train running from Toronto to Moncton derailed 33 cars at 23:30 in Villeroy, Quebec. One car leaked propane, causing the evacuation of about 70 residents.^[165]

2009

• January 1, 2009 – One person is killed and six others injured after a QR Sunlander train collided with a garbage truck at a level crossing with no boom gates or warning lights, near Innisfail, Queensland.^[166]
• January 7, 2009 – A half-mile radius of area was evacuated after a derailment of a CSX Transportation train in Queensgate, Cincinnati, Ohio. Four cars were derailed, two of which were carrying propane, but nothing leaked.^[167]

• February 7, 2009 – Three people are killed and more than 90 injured in a collision between two passenger trains in Camaguey, 570 km east of Havana in Cuba.^[168][169]

• February 13, 2009 – Twelve carriages of the Howrah-Madras Express derail soon after the train left Jajpur Road station near the city of Bhubaneswar in the state of Orissa, killing 9 and injuring 250.^[170]

• February 21, 2009 – Eleven people are killed in a collision between a bus and a train on a level crossing near Brezno.^[171]

• March 29, 2009 – rear end collision in Gulwe - Igandu section (Mpwapwa district), killing dozens of passengers and injuring many others. Equipment breakdown and culpability.^[172]

• June 5, 2009 – A 111-car Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed in Oshawa, ON around 2:15 p.m. CDT Two locomotives and 27 cars of the train derailed. Some of the cars came to rest in nearby backyards and a schoolyard during recess.^[173]

• June 7, 2009 – A girl was hit and killed by a regional express train while trying to take a picture of the nearby bridge in Bacau.

• June 19, 2009 – a major downpour of rain hit Rockford, Illinois, and caused 14 of the 114 ethanol tankers of a Canadian National freight train to leave the track and explode into flames. One person at a rail crossing was killed, while several others were burned.^[174]

• June 22, 2009 – two rush hour Washington Metro trains collided in Northeast Washington D.C. killing nine people, The deadliest in the subway system's 33-year history.
• June 29, 2009 – A freight train derailed at Viareggio. Two of the wagons were carrying Liquefied petroleum gas and they exploded.^[175] Thirty-two people were killed,^[176] five of them when a house collapsed.^[175]

• June 29, 2009 – Two passenger trains collided at local time 2:34 a.m. at Chenzhou railway station, Hunan Province, killing 3 people and leaving 63 injured.^[177] The accident was allegedly caused by a brake failure.^[178] But this is disputed.^[179]

• July 9, 2009 – A Amtrak passenger train hit the side of a vehicle in Canton Township, Michigan near Detroit. Five people were killed, all of whom were in the vehicle.

• July 14, 2009 – A Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern freight train collides with parked rail cars in a local yard in Bettendorf, Iowa, a part of the Quad Cities. Both the engineer and conductor, who were from Savanna, Illinois, were killed. The front locomotive was severely damaged, and will likely be scrapped on site. The DM&E is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

• July 24, 2009 – Rudine, Croatia - A HŽ ICN tilting train number 521 bound from Zagreb to Split derailed at 10:08 GMT between Labin Dalmatinski and Kaštel Stari near the village of Rudine. 6 passengers were killed, 55 were injured, 13 of them seriously. The crash was caused by retardant not suitable for use on the railway which was sprayed on the railroad approximately 10 minutes before the accident. The sprayed mixture caused the derailment because it left track surface slippery, which made braking impossible.^[180]. 30 minutes after the crash, during the rescue operation, a rescue train experienced the same problem and derailed on the very same spot. By pure chance there were no further injuries or deaths, although it passed very close to dozens of rescue workers and collided with the derailed wreckage.^[181]. The ICN trainset has been written off due to the extreme damage.

• July 29, 2009 – A train ran off the line due to landslide at local time 4:22 a.m. in Liucheng, Guangxi, killing 4 people and leaving 71 injured.^[182][183]

• August 14, 2009 – A bus ignored the rail crossing signals, in Scanteia (Iasi county), and a semi-fast train ran straight into it, killing 14 people and leaving 2 injured.

• August 28, 2009 – A freight train carrying fuel derailed south of Yaounde, Cameroon caught fire. Eleven wagons that were carrying diesel and petrol were destroyed. One person killed.^[184][185]

• August 30, 2009 – A passenger train derails near Yaounde, Cameroon killing five and injuring 275.^[184][185]

• September 2, 2009 – A Riga - Daugavpils train near Livani was struck by a "Volvo" excavator. 3 people were injured and 1 died. The driver of the excavator was drunk and didn't see the train.

• September 12, 2009 – Two steam trains were involved in a head-on collision on the Lößnitzgrundbahn.

• September 21, 2009 – A passenger train derails after leaving Craiova station, at a speed of about 100 km/h, injuring 16. The exact causes are yet to be determined. Investigators suspect a sabotage.

• September 21, 2009 – A truck loaded with bricks was struck by a locomotive near Gura Ocnitei, Dâmboviţa County. The truck driver didn't see the train coming. Nobody was hurt.

• September 21, 2009 – A freight train loaded with diesel derailed near Boju, Cluj County. The investigators suspect that the two locomotives of the train (one pulling, one pushing) were not synchronized in speed. The fuel was leaking from the derailed cars but there were no victims.

• September 24, 2009 – Two freight trains were involved in a head-on collision below a viaduct on the A15 motorway near Barendrecht, killing the driver of one train. Derailed sections landed on a parallel track, where a passenger train was approaching. A few passengers of the passenger train were lightly injured.

• September 30, 2009 – A 13 year old Norwegian boy climbed a parked locomotive in Uddevalla to get a photo. He was killed by the electrical overhead wire. His entire school class saw it, and it was heavily covered in Swedish and Norwegian TV.^[186].

• October 5, 2009 – A passenger train derails in Hua Hin at 04:50 local time (21:50 on October 4 UTC). At least seven people are killed and dozens are injured.^[187] Occurs during heavy rain.^[188]

• October 21, 2009 – 21 passengers were killed and around 17 injured. Later in the Inquiry it was proved that the signalling system was tempered. Goa express rammed into the last coach of the stationary Mewar Express. ^[189]

• October 23, 2009 – Thane train accident

A huge concrete slab came crashing down just before a train was about to run below it in northeast Mumbai on Friday morning, killing the driver and a commuter. Twelve others were also injured in the accident. .[5]

• October 24, 2009 – A passenger train was stopped after striking water buffalo in the al Ayyat area of Giza. Another passenger train, travelling in the same direction, later collided into the back of the stationary train, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 people.^[190]

• November 4, 2009 – At least 18 people were killed after a passenger train, Allama Iqbal Express, collided head on with a goods train in the suburbs of the city of Karachi in Pakistan. The driver of Allama Iqbal Express ignored a signal to stop the train at Juma Goth Station and rammed into another train coming from Karachi on the same track.^[191][192]

• November 27, 2009 – the Neva Express derails at Bologoye on a journey from Moscow to St Petersburg, with at least 27 deaths reported. Lenta.ru The explosive about 7 kgs in a trotyl equivalent has been put by capacity in action under the locomotive when the train moved for the speed about 200 kilometres per hour. The locomotive and most cars slipped the damaged place, but last three cars were derailed. The second bomb has blown up during salvage operations.^[193]

• December 21, 2009 – Zagreb, Croatia - An early morning HŽ commuter train number 5100 bound from Sisak Caprag to Zagreb crashed into the platform bumper at Zagreb Glavni Kolodvor. The cause of crash, which has occurred on the very end of its journey, was lack of antifreeze fluid in the locomotive's braking system which has frozen due to the extremely low outside temperature (-22 deg. C). Luckily, the speed of the train was only between 15 and 20 km/h. The crash occurred at 5:26 local time (4:26 GMT). 60 people from the train (including train's engineer) were injured, 7 of them seriously. There were no injuries among people on the platform. Witnesses say that the engineer leaned out of the locomotive window to warn people on the platform his brakes have failed and the train will crash at the end of the platform.^[194].

See also

• Classification of railway accidents
• List of train accidents by death toll
• List of road accidents - includes level crossing accidents.
• List of road accidents 2000-2009
• List of level crossing accidents
• List of British rail accidents
• List of Indian rail accidents
• List of Russian rail accidents
• List of rail accidents by country
• Years in rail transport
• 2006 in rail transport
• Tram accident
• Federal Employers Liability Act

References

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