Guasava railway accident

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In the Guasave railway accident on August 4, 9 or 10, 1989, a passenger train fell off a bridge near Guasave , in the state of Sinaloa , Mexico . 112 people died.

Starting position

The passenger train , nicknamed “El Burro” (“the donkey”), was on its way from Mazatlan , which it had left at 7.45pm the previous day, to Mexicali . It consisted of a locomotive and 11 cars , in which there were about 360 travelers . At Guasave, the railway line crosses the San Rafael River over a bridge.

In the six hours before the accident , the heaviest precipitation in 50 years had occurred. They brought an amount of rain of about 50 liters per square meter.

the accident

After the heavy rains a dam had overflowed and the resulting tidal wave had washed away the foundations of the railway bridge. When the train hit her around 4:00 a.m., she collapsed under its weight. Part of the train fell into the river from a height of about 8 meters.

consequences

112 people died, most drowned, and 205 others were injured.

literature

  • Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 221.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ So: NN: Great .
  2. ↑ So: NN: The world's worst train accidents .
  3. ^ So: Semmens; Reuters: Worst rail disasters .
  4. ↑ NN: The world's worst train accidents , names 104 dead.
  5. ↑ NN: Train falls of bridge calls the river Rio Bamoa , Semmens calls it both Rio Bamoa and San Rafael de Barmoa .
  6. ↑ Semmens gives the number of 630 injured.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reuters: Worst rail disasters ; NN: Train crash .
  2. ↑ NN: Great ; NN: Train crash .
  3. ^ Reuters: Worst rail disasters .
  4. ^ NN: Train crash .