Stéblová train disaster

In the railway accident Stéblová met on 14 November 1960, the exit from the Stéblová, Czechoslovakia station (now Czech Republic ), a railcar with a chariot drawn by a steam locomotive passenger train together. Here, 118 people died and 110 were seriously injured.

The accident

In the afternoon, day of the accident there was fog in Stéblová. The trains were successively extend out of the station, as the routes of both trains crossed. It was in two trains to heavily infested commuter trains, with which people went home.

During one of the trains to the signal level corresponding to export properly, also received the second train - inadvertently - by the Zugaufsicht the Abfahrauftrag. Because of the nebula its locomotive engineer did not realize that the binding for him exit signal " stop" showed. So it came into collision.

After the collision, the engineer of the steam locomotive tipped over hot coals to prevent a boiler explosion. This inflamed leaking diesel fuel of the railcar, who immediately began to burn. Most of the dead or injured succumbed to burns or smoke inhalation.

Follow

Due to the prevailing political system in the former press censorship of the accident was only a brief mention in the media and was otherwise silent dead, though it was the worst railway accident in the history of Czechoslovakia.