Gostivar railway accident
In the railway accident in Gostivar on July 30, 1969, near Gostivar in the Yugoslav republic of Macedonia (today: North Macedonia ), a diesel multiple unit collided with runaway freight cars . 29 people died and 17 were also injured.
the accident
During shunting work in Gostivar station , three tank wagons with a capacity of 40 tons each escaped and rolled away on the downhill section towards Tetovo . Shortly before, a two-part diesel multiple unit had left the station in the opposite direction. At that time there was no connection between the dispatcher and the driver . So the latter could no longer be warned. The collision was so severe that the front vehicle of the railcar was compressed to a length of only two meters.
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .