List of Level Crossing Accidents - Australia

Australia

  • 8 May 1943 - Australia's worst rail-road crash. Steam loco A2 863 hit a bus carrying soldiers at Tallangatta Road, Wodonga resulting in the death of twenty five people.
  • 24 February 1951 - 11 people killed in a collision between a bus and a train at a level crossing near Horsham, Victoria.
  • 1 June 1952 - Nine killed in bus-train accident at a level crossing at Boronia, Victoria.
  • 27 January 2001 - Gerogery level crossing accident - Five killed
  • 24 October 2002 - an interstate passenger train strikes a school bus at Salisbury - Five killed.
  • 5 August 2004 - Three killed when a Sprinter Passenger train collides with a car stopped on a level crossing at St.Albans, Victoria.
  • 11 August 2005 - motorist ignored flashing lights at Horsham.
  • 28 April 2006 - Two killed, 41 injured when truck and train collide near Beaufort, Victoria in western Victoria.
  • 25 May 2006 - Lismore level crossing accident - train and truck collide at unprotected level crossing in fog. Train piles up. Truck driver killed.
  • 5 June 2007 - Kerang train crash - 11 train passengers killed when carriages sliced open by truck. Warning lights working.
  • 22 August 2007 - Somerville–Tyabb - truck driver killed. - flashing lights, no booms
  • 29 April 2008 - Vehicle with 'P-Plate' driver hit by train while stopped on level crossing in Murrumbeena, Victoria
  • 18 November 2008 – A Connex Melbourne express train collides with a car in Dandenong South, Victoria, killing the car's 53-year-old female occupant after she failed to stop at an active level crossing.
  • 27 November 2008 – Two people are killed and several others injured after a QR Tilt Train collided with a truck on the Bruce Highway level crossing about 20 km (16 miles) south of Cardwell, Queensland.
  • 1 January 2009 – One person is killed and six others injured after a QR Sunlander train collided with a garbage truck at a level crossing with no boom gates or warning lights, near Innisfail, Queensland.
  • 14 November 2011 - One killed after train collides with car at Toorak Road level crossing in Kooyong, Victoria.
  • 28 November 2011 - Train collides with a tip truck stopped on the Springvale Road level crossing in Springvale, Victoria.
  • 16 March 2012 - One killed after train collides with car at Cheltenham, Victoria.
  • 25 May 2012 - One person killed after a freight train collides with a car stopped on Cherry road level crossing near Werribee, Victoria.
  • 27 Oct 2012 - Reservoir, Victoria - Train collides with Truck at High Road level crossing with operational boom gates, bells and lights.
  • 3 Nov 2012 - Dandenong South, Victoria - Truck runs through Abbotts Road level crossing with operational boom gates, bells and lights, and is hit by an outbound Cranbourne suburban train travelling at 115 km/h (71 mph). 1 killed, 13 injured including train driver.

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