Trains in The Netherlands - Train Accidents

Train Accidents

See also: Category:Railway accidents in the Netherlands

Train accidents in the Netherlands with passengers or crew killed or injured (incomplete)

  • April 21, 2012 Amsterdam - A Sprinter Lighttrain and an NS VIRM collided head-on. About 120 people injured and one passenger killed.
  • September 24, 2009 Barendrecht - Two freight trains collide head-on due to heart failure of one of the drivers. The intercity Amsterdam-Brussels strucks debris.
  • November 27, 2007 Rotterdam -NS passenger train collide head-on with freight train. Train drivers killed and one passenger killed.
  • November 26, 2007 Arnhem - Two NS trains collide, a Local train and an Intercity train, Train drivers killed.
  • November 3, 2005 Wijhe – NS passenger train collides head-on with truck – Truck driver killed, NS driver and 4 passengers injured.
  • March 20, 2003 Roermond – NS passenger train collides head-on with freight train – NS driver killed, 6 passengers seriously injured.
  • November 1992 Hoofddorp train disaster – Train derails, and the front falls of a hill resulting in five deaths.
  • November 1992 Hoofddorp - At the same location as above but then two days earlier Train Derails, 3 injuries.
  • July 25, 1980 – Winsum train disaster, Netherlands: Two trains collide on a single track between Groningen and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured.
  • January 8, 1962 Harmelen – Harmelen train disaster: two passenger trains collide head-on, 89 passengers and both engineers killed .

Train surfing accidents in the Netherlands

  • Feb 2004: 15-year old boy killed in Maassluis, had been hanging on the outside of a window.

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