Zagreb train disaster

In the railway accident in Zagreb on August 30, 1974 derailed the international express (No. 10 410) from Belgrade to Dortmund at the entrance to the main train station of Zagreb, then Yugoslavia, now Croatia. 153 dead and 60 injured were the result.

Starting position

The express train was a special train for migrant workers who drove back from their summer vacation to Germany. He associated from Belgrade to Dortmund and was staffed with about 400 passengers. On the locomotive, the locomotive engineer and a Beimann with the qualification of a locomotive driver were.

Accident

The two train drivers were for 52 hours in service and had this month already 300 service hours accumulated. Even the two ahead of Zagreb stations Ludina and Novoselec should have passed through the train with very high speed. Instead of the prescribed 40 km / h, the train ran over 100 km / h in the driveway of the main railway station of Zagreb: The engine driver had fallen asleep. Although they slowed down finally, but too late. The train derailed 719 meters from the start of the track IIa, the car overturned tangent of the curve, slid into each other and were smashed. The locomotive remained on the rails and drove a alone on the track IIa of the station at 22:33 clock.

Follow

153 people died and 60 more were also injured. This was the worst railway accident in the history of Yugoslavia. 41 of the dead could not be identified and were buried in a common grave on the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb.

The two train drivers were unhurt in the accident. The first locomotive engineer was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, the second man on the locomotive received 8 years. As mitigating circumstances, the more than two-day service layer of the two was recognized in both cases. On the part of the management of the Yugoslav State Railways, which had approved the use of the sleep-deprived staff, no one was held accountable. The locomotive of the train accident is now in the existence of the Croatian Railway Museum.

Swell

• Najveća željeznička nesreća u hrvatskoj povijesti - Crna kronika - Hrvatska.