Zagreb railway accident
In the railway accident in Zagreb on August 30, 1974, the international express train (No. 10 410) from Belgrade to Dortmund derailed when entering the main train station in Zagreb (then Yugoslavia , now Croatia ). 153 dead and 60 injured were the result.
Starting position
The express train was a special train for guest workers who drove back to Germany from the summer vacation . It ran from Belgrade to Dortmund and was occupied by about 400 travelers . The locomotive driver and an assistant with the qualification of a locomotive driver were on the locomotive.
Accident
The two drivers had been on duty for 52 hours and had accumulated 300 hours of service that month. The train is said to have passed through the two stations in front of Zagreb, Ludina and Novoselec , at very high speed. Instead of the prescribed 40 km / h, the train drove into the entrance of Zagreb Central Station at more than 100 km / h: the engine drivers had fallen asleep. In the end they still braked, but too late. The train derailed 719 meters from the beginning of track IIa, the cars tilted tangentially out of the curve, pushed into one another and were smashed. The locomotive stayed on the rails and arrived alone on platform IIa of the station at 10:33 p.m.
consequences
153 people died and 60 others were injured. This was the worst railway accident in the history of Yugoslavia . 41 of the dead could no longer be identified and were buried in a communal grave in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb .
The two locomotive drivers were uninjured in the accident. The first locomotive engineer was to 15 years imprisonment convicted, the second man on the locomotive received eight years. The two-day shift of more than two days was recognized as a mitigating circumstance in both cases. No one was held accountable on the part of the management of the Yugoslav Railways , which allowed the overtired staff to be deployed. The locomotive of the train involved in the accident is now in the holdings of the Croatian Railway Museum .
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Web links
- History Channel: This Day in History 1974: Train crashes into station in Yugoslavia (corresponds almost verbatim to the article in the English language Wikipedia).
- railfan.net: Danger Ahead! Zagreb 1974 (with a picture of the clearing of the accident site).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Prije 35 godina 150 mrtvih na kolodvoru - Jutarnji.hr (Published: December 21, 2009.)
- ↑ Najveće željezničke nesreće: U Zagrebu je poginulo 153 ljudi - Jutarnji.hr (Published: February 15, 2010.)
- ↑ "Zagrebačka noć užasa": Obilježava se godišnjica stravične željezničke nesreće na Glavnom kolodvoru - Vijesti.net - Index.hr (Published: August 30, 2012. 12:54)
- ↑ a b David Fry: Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1974. August 4, 1998, accessed on January 10, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b c 30. kolovoza 1974. noć užasa na zagrebačkom Glavnom kolodvoru - Jutarnji.hr ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reconstruction of the director of the Croatian Railway Museum Helena Bunijevac and curator Denis Marohnić (Published: September 2, 2006.)
- ↑ Dnevno.hr Najtragičnija željeznička nesreća u čitavoj hrvatskoj povijesti - 1974. - Dnevno News Portal ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Published: Thursday, August 30, 2012 02:04 am)
Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′ 18.2 " N , 15 ° 59 ′ 21.7" E