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Subj: Today in History - May 3
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May 3, 1962:
Trains collide near Tokyo
Two commuter trains and a freight train collide near Tokyo,
Japan, killing more than 160 people and injuring twice that
number on this day in 1962.
It was Constitution Day in Japan when a commuter train pulled out
of Mikawashima station at 9:30 p.m. taking passengers out of
Tokyo. Three miles north of the city, a freight train went
through a red signal, causing it to jump the track and collide
with the commuter train. Most of the passengers survived this
first collision.
The survivors then scrambled out of the disabled train and down a
30-foot embankment adjacent to the rails. Minutes later, a second
commuter train on the same line, with nine cars, came down the
tracks unaware of the crash ahead and plowed into the back of the
first commuter train. The collision caused the boiler of the
steam locomotive on the freight train to explode; the resulting
steam scalded those people still stuck on the train.
To make matters worse, the first commuter train was pushed over
and down the embankment right on top of the passengers who had
escaped from it minutes earlier. More than 400 people were either
killed or required hospitalization.
The subsequent investigation into the accident resulted in the
indictment of nine of the freight train's crew members for
criminal negligence.
73, K.O. n0kfq
N0KFQ @ KB0WSA.MO.USA.NA
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