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Ladbroke Grove rail crash

1999 CE · United Kingdom, Europe · Disaster

Ladbroke Grove rail crash
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The Ladbroke Grove rail crash occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when a Thames Trains passenger train passed a signal at danger, colliding almost head-on with a First Great Western passenger train. With 31 people killed and 417 injured, it was one of the worst rail accidents in 20th-century British history.

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