Drownino railway accident
The Drownino railway accident on August 6, 1952 was one of the worst railway accidents in the Soviet Union, killing 109 . It was caused by a passenger train colliding with a horse , which led to the derailment .
Starting position
The 751 passenger train was on the Moscow - Smolensk railway at night. He was supported by a steam locomotive of Л series out. At the top were two four-axle passenger cars, followed by 65 two-axle cars . The train weighed a total of 980 tons.
the accident
Fifteen minutes before the entrance to Drownino station , which is between Moshaisk and Gschatsk , the locomotive's headlights went out. When entering the station at 2:00 a.m., the train rammed into a horse standing in the track at around 50 km / h, which the engine driver only noticed 50 meters before it hit, so that he could only brake to a small extent.
consequences
The locomotive derailed, as did the following cars, which pushed into one another. 31 cars were smashed or damaged. Because of the uneven distribution of lighter and heavier cars in the train, two mountains of rubble formed, one in the middle and one in the rear of the train. 109 people were killed and 211 injured in the accident. The dead were buried in a mass grave in the Drownino cemetery.
This was the second worst railway accident in the history of the Soviet Union , only exceeded by the railway accident at Ufa .
Legal proceedings followed, in which the guilt for the accident was placed on the dispatcher , an employee responsible for protecting the railway infrastructure , and the chairman of the adjacent collective farm from which the animal came. The cause of the accident was the inadequate supervision of animals, which were inadmissible for grazing in the track area .
Web links
- Website about the accident (in Russian ).
- Website about the accident (in Russian).
source
Transfer from the corresponding article in the Russian-language Wikipedia and sources specified there.