Szczekociny rail crash
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Video of the site after the incident
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| Date | 3 March 2012 | ||
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| Time | 21:07 CET | ||
| Location | Chałupki near Szczekociny | ||
| Coordinates | 50°37′21″N 19°51′22″E / 50.62250°N 19.85611°ECoordinates: 50°37′21″N 19°51′22″E / 50.62250°N 19.85611°E | ||
| Country | Poland | ||
| Rail line | Kozłów—Psary | ||
| Operator | PKP Intercity, Przewozy Regionalne | ||
| Type of incident | Head-on collision | ||
| Cause | Undetermined | ||
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| Trains | 2 | ||
| Passengers | ~350 | ||
| Deaths | 16 | ||
| Injuries | 58 | ||
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The Szczekociny rail crash occurred on 3 March 2012 when two passenger trains collided head-on near the town of Szczekociny, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Sixteen persons died in the incident and 58 were injured. The incident provoked condolences from the leaders of a number of European countries. The investigation into the collision began on 4 March. The official investigative report was published on 15 February 2013.
At around 20:57 CET on 3 March 2012, two passenger trains (totalling approximately 350 passengers in 10 carriages) collided at Chałupki near the Silesian Voivodship town of Szczekociny. One train, the TLK 31100 Brzechwa operated by PKP Intercity, was travelling north from Przemyśl to Warsaw; the other was the InterRegio 13126 Matejko operated by Przewozy Regionalne, travelling south from Warsaw to Kraków at 95 kilometres per hour (59 mph). At the time, scheduled engineering works were underway on the track at Szczekociny railway station. A spokesman from Polish State Railways said that as a result of this, the Kraków-bound train was "on the wrong track". The InterRegio train was hauled by Class ET22 locomotive 1105, and the Intercity by Class EP09 035.
Because of the collision, one carriage of the northbound Warsaw train telescoped, and other carriages derailed. One eyewitness described carriages colliding like a concertina.
Officials announced that the incident resulted in 16 fatalities and 58 injuries. One of the fatalities was an American woman, another a Russian national. On 6 March 2012, Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported that the drivers of both trains and a number of train staff died in the incident.
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