THIRD WORLD COUNTRY FOR SURE. WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN BRITAIN, GERMANY OR THE NETHERLANDS
European train crashes – a recent history:
12 July 2013: Six people are killed and nearly 200 injured just south of Paris when four cars slide off the tracks as a passenger train speeds through the small French town of Bretigny-sur-Orge.
22 April 2012: A woman dies of injuries a day after two trains collide head-on in Amsterdam. At least 16 people are seriously injured.
13 April 2012: Three people are killed and 13 injured in a train crash near
Frankfurt when two trains collide and derail.
3 March 2012: Two trains collide head-on in southern Poland, killing at least eight people and injuring around 50.
30 January 2011: A head-on collision between a cargo train and a passenger train kills at least 10 people and injures 23 near the
eastern German village of Hordorf.
9 December 2010: One person is killed and two others are injured after a train derailed in southern Greece between the southern cities of Argos and Tripoli.
6 August 2010: A train derails in southern Italy, killing one passenger and leaving about 30 injured on the outskirts of Naples, its destination.
23 July 2010: Switzerland's popular Glacier Express tourist train derails in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42 on its spectacular journey between Zermatt and St Moritz.
15 February 2010: A train wreck in Buizingen, Belgium, kills 18 people and injures 55.
1 July 2009: Thirty-two people are killed and 26 injured when a train carrying liquefied gas derails and explodes while traveling through a downtown neighbourhood in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio.
6 October 2008: A local passenger train runs into the back of a long-distance train near Budapest, Hungary, killing four people and injuring 26.
27 January 2008: A passenger train derails in central Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, possibly due to ice on the tracks.
September 2006: The Transrapid magnetic levitation train, which floats on a magnetic cushion, hits a maintenance vehicle on a test track in the Emsland area of Germany, killing 23 people.
3 July 2006: A local passenger train crashes in the southern city of Valencia, killing 41 people. Excessive speed is blamed.
January 2006: Up to 46 people are killed and 198 injured when a packed train derails and plunges into a ravine outside Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro.
January 2005: Seventeen people are killed when a passenger train and a freight train crash north of Bologna, Italy.
June 2003: A Spanish passenger train travelling to Cartagena from Madrid crashes into the path of an oncoming goods train at Chinchilla, killing 19.
May 2003: Thirty-four people are killed in Hungary when the Budapest-Nagykanizsa train hits a coach full of mainly elderly German holidaymakers at a level crossing near Siofok.
November 2000: A fire in an Austrian tunnel engulfs a funicular train packed with skiers, killing 155 people.
October 1999: Two trains collide near London's Paddington station, killing 31 people. One of the trains had gone through a red signal.
June 1998: A high-speed train derails near the
village of Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany, killing 101 and injuring 88. It was caused by a single fatigue crack in one wheel which caused the train to derail at a switch and collide with a road bridge.
December 1988: Thirty-five people die in a crash involving three trains at Clapham Junction in London. Slack safety measures are blamed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/european-train-crashes-recent-history
