Rosmalen train accident
51°43′9″N 5°22′2″E / 51.71917°N 5.36722°E / 51.71917; 5.36722Country Netherlands Incident type Derailment Cause Ignoring signal Statistics Trains 2 Deaths 3 Location and date
The Rosmalen train accident was a railway accident next to the street Burgemeester Wolterstraat near Rosmalen railway station in Rosmalen, Netherlands in late December 1920. In the accident two freight trains collided and three people died.[1]
One of the two freight trains was on a side track in front of the Rosmalen railway station. The train was driving back upon the main track and collided with a freight train coming from the direction of Nijmegen. Due to the collision, the locomotive of the colliding train derailed and the following eight wagons slid in and up each other.
According to witnesses the train driver had ignored an unsafe sign. Three people died: the main conductor and two brakemen. One of them lay for 11 hours seriously injured under the rubble before he could be released. He died shortly afterwards in hospital.
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- ^ Burgemeester Wolterstraat - Spoorstraat, Treinongeluk 1920 rosmalenseherinneringen.nl (in Dutch)
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