Šakvice train collision
48°54′51″N 16°42′05″E / 48.91417°N 16.70139°E / 48.91417; 16.70139
  Šakvice class=notpageimage| Accident location in Czechoslovakia |
The Šakvice train disaster occurred on 24 December 1953 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured. The Ministry of the Interior said there was gross negligence by a number of railway men who had since been arrested. Other reports said that the express train crew had consumed a number of bottles of wine. Other sources have over 100 or 186 deaths.
This disaster was one of the 20 most serious rail incidents by death toll at the time.[1]
References
- The Times (London) 29 December 1953, page 5
- ^ Conly, Geoff & Stewart, Graham: Tragedy on the Track: Tangiwai & other New Zealand Railway Accidents (Wellington NZ, Grantham House, 1986) ISBN 978-1-86934-008-7 (page 181; list of 20 most serious rail accidents by deaths to 1953)
External links
- Paragraph on this and other Christmas accidents
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Railway accidents in 1953 (1953)
- Washington, D.C., US (15 January)
- Cdoro. Rivadavia, Argentina (15 February)
- Conneaut, Ohio, US (27 March)
- London, England (8 April)
- Weesp, the Netherlands (19 June)
- Hai Van Pass, Vietnam (24 June)
- Manchester, England (15 August)
- Sydenham, Australia (19 December)
- Tangiwai, New Zealand (24 December)
- Šakvice, Czechoslovakia (24 December)
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