Accidents and Incidents
DVTs have been involved in very few accidents.
- Hatfield derailment involving DVT 82200
- Great Heck rail crash, February 2001. 82221 was withdrawn after major damage to the DVT
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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