Tenga railway accident

The Tenga rail disaster was the rare case of a railway accident in which a train with himself a rear-end collision caused. This happened on May 26, 2002 near Tenga in Mozambique . 192 dead and 167 injured were the result.

The accident occurred with a freight train with passenger transport consisting of some 600 travelers occupied passenger cars and freight cars was that cement had loaded. It operated on the Pretoria – Maputo railway between Nelspruit ( South Africa ) and Maputo (Mozambique).

In order to be able to cope better with a slope near Tenga, 40 km northwest of Maputo, the staff of the train unhooked the freight cars and first drove the passenger cars up. There, the railway employees parked the wagons on a siding and insufficiently secured them only by laying stones on the tracks . The locomotive drove back to pick up the freight cars . In the meantime, the passenger cars started rolling and collided with the rest of the locomotive and freight car.

See also

Similar accidents where the severed part of a train caused a rear-end collision:

• Armagh Railway Accident , Northern Ireland 1889
• Railway accident at Pelm , Prussia , 1897

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• NN: Almost 200 dead in a train accident in Mozambique. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) v. May 27, 2002
• Erich Preuss: Railway accidents at Deutsche Bahn. Causes - Background - Consequences. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-613-71229-6 , p. 84. [With a different description of the course of the accident, but only with reference to the FAZ report].

Coordinates: 25 ° 35 ′ 32.4 ″  S , 32 ° 10 ′ 25.7 ″  E