Introduction
Behind the prosperity of new projects, new orders, and new technologiesThe safety of rail transit construction and operation is also a problem that practitioners cannot ignore. As in previous years, Blue Track Rail summarizes the main accidents of global rail transit in 2023 for all readers. Accidents with small impact and few reports will not be listed, such as frequent train collisions with animals in some overseas areasAccidents caused by force majeure such as floods and floods are no longer listed. The 2023 annual inventory has increased the ranking of accident weights, and the sorting criteria are carried out from the dimensions of the number of accidents caused by the accident and the negative impact.
TOP12 - 25 people were injured in a collision with the Hong Kong Light Rail Transit Railway
On the evening of October 27,Two LRT trains collided at Hang Mei Village Station in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong。At least 25 people were injured, three of whom were in serious condition and 22 were slightly injured. MTR said the conductor had been suspended from his duties to assist in the investigation. The LRT collision was the third LRT accident in Hong Kong since July this year, sounding the alarm bell for public transport safety.
TOP11 - 38 people were injured in a sudden rear-end collision in Chicago, USA
On the morning of October 16thOn the Chicago North Line in the United States, near Howard Station, a CTA Yellow Line train collided with a slow-moving snowplow, as a result of which 38 people were injured, three of them seriously, and four children were injured, the youngest of whom was only two years old.
TOP10 - 102 people were fractured in the accident of the Changping Line of the Beijing Metro
At 18:57 on December 14A train carriage in the uplink section of Xierqi Station-Life Science Park Station of Beijing Metro Changping Line was detached and forced to stop. At about 23 o'clock on the 14th, the personnel transfer was completed, the on-site disposal work was basically completed, and a total of 515 people were sent to the hospital for examination, including 102 fractures and no deaths. According to the preliminary investigation, the cause of the accident was the degrading of the signal of the front car caused by the slippery track in the snow, and the emergency braking and stopping, and the rear car was located in the downhill section, and the snow caused the train to slide and failed to brake effectively, resulting in a rear-end collision with the front car.
TOP9 - Romanian bus crash accident
At 7:20 p.m. on March 25, a train departed from Gallazi at the Romanian railway station to Malešešti in a train with a locomotiveSevere impacts occur when coupled, resulting in 1 dead and 3 injured.
TOP8 - 4 dead and 3 injured in a train accident in Catalonia, Spain!
On the evening of September 10, a car accident occurred in Catalonia, Spain. According to emergency responders,Seven people were hit by a train from Barcelona to Granada as they tried to cross the railway, killed four people (three girls and one boy, aged 19-22) and injured three others.
TOP7 - The worst railway accident in the Netherlands in recent years: DB Cargo truck collided with a crane and a double-decker EMU train, resulting in 1 death and 30 injuries
On April 4, a traffic accident occurred near Voorschoten on the Leiden-Hague four-track trunk line in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring 30 others, causing the worst accident on Dutch railways in recent years. Accidents are the causeA train carrying lime and heading to the Bevervek Tata Steel Plant collided with an orbital crane operated by infrastructure maintenance company BAM。The freight train's Series 189 locomotive departed from the Kijfhoek shunting yard and was severely damaged in the nose after colliding with the crane, and the crane debris was blasted onto the adjacent tracks. Some of the goods also fell off the freight train.
TOP6 - Indian train derailment accident kills 4 people and injures 80
Around 9:35 p.m. on Oct. 11An express train derailment occurred in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least four people and injuring about 80 others.
TOP5 – At least 10 people were killed and 27 injured in a train collision in southeastern India
October 29th,A train coming from the opposite direction collided with a train coming from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, to Rayakada, Odisha, when it was stopped in the Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh due to a broken catenary。According to a senior member of the Indian Railways system, the collision caused at least three cars to derail, including two cars carrying more than 90 passengers on a suspended train. Preliminary investigations revealed that the cause of the accident was the suspension of trains"Signal overshoot"caused"Human error"。
TOP4 - At least 26 people died in the collapse of a railway bridge under construction in India
According to Indian television, on August 23, local time,A railway bridge under construction near the Serlang area of Mizoram collapsed, killing at least 26 workers. This is the second bridge under construction to collapse since June 2, when India's worst train derailment and collision of the century occurred.
TOP3 - The worst railway accident in the history of Greece: the Athens-Thessaloni baseline railway accident
February 28th,A passenger train carrying more than 350 people was traveling at 160 kilometers per hour when it collided head-on with a speeding freight train, causing a serious accident on the Athens-Thessaloni baseline。The report shows that the accident occurred in an area where a remote monitoring and signaling system has not been installed. Only 70 per cent of the Athens-Thessaloni baseline was equipped with signalling systems that would have prevented accidents.
Earlier, on February 7, Greek railway workers issued a statement in a complaint about minor accidents, saying that if the safety system is not immediately improved, more serious accidents will occur. The investigation found that although there were already moving freight trains on the same track, the Intercity 62 passenger train was still allowed to travel on this track, was not stopped in time, and passed the signal light when it was dangerous, resulting in 57 deaths and many injuries.
TOP2 - Derailment of East Palestine, Ohio, USA caused a leak of hazardous materials
On February 3, around 20:54 local time,A Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) train carrying vinyl chloride and various other goods derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, USA, sparked a fire that forced the evacuation of large areas. Accident reports indicate that Norfolk Southern (NS) eastbound General Merchandise freight train 32N derailed 38-car on the NS Fort Wayne Line 1 main track at the Keystone Division in East Palestine, Ohio. The derailed train consisted of 11 tank cars carrying hazardous materials that were subsequently ignited, causing a fire that burned out another 12 underailed railcars.
TOP1 – India's worst railway accident in the last decade – killed 233 people and injured 900
June 2ndA train derailment collides in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, which has killed at least 233 people and injured about 900, making it the worst rail accident in the country in more than a decade. At around 7 p.m. on June 2, a passenger train from Kolkata to Chennai derailed near the Baharnaja railway station in the Balasore district of Odisha, with more than 10 cars scattered around and even landed on the opposite track. Subsequently, a passenger train from Bengaluru to Kolkata approached from the opposite track and crashed into the derailed car, causing several cars of the train to also derail.
According to statistics, a total of 12 carriages were destroyed and several carriages derailed. The preliminary investigation on the 4th basically ruled out the possibility of driver error and system failure, mainly due to the failure of the electronic interlocking device, which led to the train derailment and collision. At the time of the accident, the electronic interlocks were supposed to signal the Koromandel Express from Kolkata to Chennai to "enter the main line", but then the signal was cancelled and the express entered the loop and collided with a stationary freight train, causing the passenger train to derail and the high-speed Bengaluru-Hola Super Express crashed into the Coromandel Express cars scattered on the adjacent tracks.