Salem railway accident (1907)
The Salem rail accident was a head-on collision between two trains on July 20, 1907 near Salem , Michigan , USA , in which 30 people died.
Starting position
The train protection was carried out on the single-track line of the Pere Marquette Railway (PM) by giving the locomotive crew handwritten travel commands . The regulation said that the employees on the locomotive had to read this command to each other. The personnel of a freight train had received such a driving order. He was met by a special train on the same route that railway workers were taking on their annual company outing from Ionia to Detroit .
the accident
The command for the freight train was indistinctly written and the train driver did not read it out loud. He confused two train stations, assumed incorrect travel times and an incorrect crossing station . The place where the two trains met was also in a deep cut in the terrain . 30 people died in the collision.
useful information
Also referred to as the Salem Railway Accident is a railway accident that occurred on May 14, 1995 near Salem , Tamil Nadu , India. (Compare: here .)
See also
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .