List of level crossing accidents

= Overview =

Level crossing accidents include:
* Dorion level crossing accident — 1966 - 19 killed
* Hixon rail crash — 1968 - 11 killed
* Lockington rail crash — 1986 - 9 killed
* Fox River Grove level crossing accident — 1995 - 7 killed
* Bourbonnais train accident — 1999 - 11 killed
* Gerogery level crossing accident — 2001 - 5 killed
* Ufton Nervet rail crash — 2004 - 7 killed
* Glendale train crash — 2005 - 11 killed
* Polgahawela level crossing collision, Sri Lanka — 2005: a bus tries to beat the train at a level crossing; at least 35 people are killed.
* Johannesburg level crossing accident — 2005: 9 killed.
* Nagpur level crossing disaster — 2005 - 55 killed.
* Kerang train crash — 2007 - 11 train passengers killed when carriages sliced open by truck.
* March 9 2008, Dolores, Buenos Aires - A bus collided with a passenger train, killing 17 and injuring at least 35, when the bus driver ignored the railroad crossing warning devices.
* 16 April 2008 – According to ATN Bangla television, a Dinajpur-Dhaka Ekoto Express train hit a local bus on a level crossing outside of Kalihati, Tangail, Bangladesh, killing 18 and injuring 30. [ http://www.bangladeshnews.com.bd/2008/04/17/17-killed-as-train-rams-bus-in-tangail/ ]
* Marsa Matruh 16 July 2008 a truck failed to stop pushing waiting traffic into the path of the train. At least 40 killed.

Australia

* 22 August, 2007 - Somerville-Tyabb - truck driver killed [ http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/08/22/2011798.htm ] - flashing lights, no booms

Egypt

* December 11, 1987 – According to the Egyptian government, a bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo was smashed by high-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at Ein Sham, on the outskirts Cairo, Egypt, killing 62 children and injuring 67. [ Associated Press. " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D7123FF931A25751C1A961948260&sec=&pagewanted=print Egypt Bus Crash Kills At Least 57 Children] " "The New York Times" 12 December 1987 ]

Germany

* 20 June - 1959 – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen, West Germany killing 45, the worst bus accident in German history at that time. [http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/24/busunfall_a14/070619_chronologie.jhtml Chronik: Schwere Busunfälle in Deutschland] ]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugungl%C3%BCck_von_Langenweddingen Langenweddingen level crossing disaster] — 1967 - 94 killed

India

* 31 August, 1998 - Malwi - 27 killed and 22 injured when minibus struck by train at unmanned crossing. [ http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/reports/mawli.html ]

Switzerland

* 12 September, 1982 – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 39. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survive the crash. [http://www.adac.de/Tests/Mobilitaet_und_Reise/Busreisen/bustest_2004/busunfaelle_europa/default.asp?TL=2 Busunfälle in Europa seit 1982] ]

See also

* List of pre-1950 rail accidents
* List of 1950-1999 rail accidents
* List of railway accidents (2000-present)
* List of road accidents

References