List of rail accidents (2020–present)

This is a list of rail accidents since 2020. This list does not contain incidents with singular fatalities of pedestrians who were not in a vehicle.

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2020
Wreckage being cleared at Pak Tho station, Thailand
New York City subway fire.
  • 27 March – 2020 New York City Subway fire: A series of fires on the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line and IRT Lenox Avenue Line caused a fire on the 2 train at 110th Street station on the Lenox Avenue Line killing the train operator and injuring 16 other people.
  • 27 March - United States - In Deland, Florida, an Amtrak Auto Train derailed when 8 train cars tipped over, 1 person was injured.[16]
  • 30 March – China – A passenger train (Jinan – Guangzhou) derails after colliding with debris on the track due to a landslide in Hunan Province, 1 onboard railroad police officer was killed and 127 people were injured, four severely.[17]
  • 31 March – United States – A train is intentionally derailed near USNS Mercy, though no injuries are reported. The engineer was arrested by federal authorities and charged with train-wrecking.[18]
  • 3 April – Germany – A freight train collides with a concrete piece of a bridge near a construction site. The engineer is killed and 3 others were injured.[19]
  • 8 May – India – Aurangabad railway accident: A goods train runs over and kills 16 migrant labourers who were walking to their homes in Madhya Pradesh and slept on the railway tracks, believing that trains would not be running (only passenger trains were stopped, while goods railway services continued to function) due to a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[20]
  • 22 May – Netherlands – Hooghalen train crash: A passenger train collides with an agricultural vehicle. The train driver dies while two people are injured.[21]
  • 2 June – Spain – A high-speed passenger train collides with a lorry that had fallen from a bridge on to the track at La Hiniesta and derails. Two people are killed.[22]
  • 7 July – Czech Republic – On the Karlovy Vary–Johanngeorgenstadt railway a ČD Class 814 Regionova and ČD Class 844 RegioShark collide head-on at about 50 km/h (31 mph). 2 people were killed and 24 were injured.[23] In total there are 33 passengers aboard both trains.[24]
  • 15 July – Czech Republic – A ČD Class 471 train collides with a freight train at Český Brod. One person is killed and 35 are injured.[25]
  • 21 July - Australia - In Loftus, New South Wales, a Pacific National train collided with an open engine compartment door from a freight train, which was stationary on an adjacent line. Minor damage was caused to the front of the passenger train, no injuries were reported. The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau launched an investigation into the matter.[26]
  • 29 July – United States – A freight train derails on a bridge in Tempe, Arizona. The wreck catches fire and the bridge collapses.[27]
  • 31 July – Portugal – Soure train crash: An Alfa Pendular high-speed passenger train derails after collision with a catenary maintenance vehicle. Two people are killed and 43 are injured.[28]
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  • 12 August – United Kingdom – Stonehaven derailment: A ScotRail Inter7City passenger train derails near Carmont following stormy weather killing three people and injuring six.[29]
  • 19 August – Italy – Carnate derailment: A passenger train runs away crewless from Paderno d'Adda and is derailed at Carnate-Usmate station. Three people are injured.[30]
  • 27 August – United Kingdom – Llangennech derailment: A freight train derails and catches fire at Llangennech, Carmarthenshire.[31]
  • 20 September – United States – A New York City Subway train derailed after a suspected act of sabotage caused when a man clamped wooden planks onto the roadbed causing the train to derail. Three passengers were injured.[32][33][34]
  • 11 October - United States - In Lilburn, Georgia, a CSX train derails during heavy rains following Hurricane Delta, causing minor injuries to the two occupants of the locomotive.[35]
  • 11 October - Thailand - A freight train crashed into a bus at a railroad crossing. The bus was headed to Buddhist Temple, 20 people were killed and dozens injured.[36]
  • 29 October – United States – A 25-car Kansas City Southern freight train derails in Mauriceville, Texas. Five tank cars are punctured and leak their contents, but one tank car contained a 'corrosive material', causing the evacuation of those within a mile (1600 m) of the crash site while those within a half-mile (800 m) of the evacuation zone were told to stay indoors. No injuries were reported.[37]
  • 2 November – Netherlands – De Akkers metro station crash: A Rotterdam Metro train fails to stop at De Akkers metro station, crashes through a buffer stop and comes to rest partially atop a statue of a whale's tail.[38]
  • 11 November – United Kingdom – Sheffield Freight Train Derailment: A freight train carrying cement derailed as it passed through Sheffield station causing significant damage to track and wayside equipment.[39]
  • 28 November - United States - In Wellington, Colorado, a BNSF Train collided with an empty train car and derailed with the train wheels of the empty train car which made the BNSF Train derail, 1 person was injured.[40]
  • 19 December - United States - 2 people were injured after 2 Dallas Area Rapid Transit trains collided with each other in downtown Dallas. Officials say that the transit's northbound orange line train derailed itself, and collided with a southbound red line train.[41]

2021
Mexico City
  • 3 May – Mexico – Mexico City Metro overpass collapse: At least 24 people are killed and 70 are injured when a bridge carrying the Mexico City Metro collapses as a train crosses it.[58]
  • 24 May – Malaysia – 2021 Kelana Jaya LRT collision: 213 people are injured including 47 seriously when two subway trains collide in Kuala Lumpur near the Petronas Twin Towers.[59]
  • 4 June – China – A train in Jinchang, Gansu enters an area with rail engineering works ongoing and kills nine track workers.[60]
  • 7 June – Pakistan – 2021 Ghotki rail crash: The Millat Express, traveling from Karachi to Sargodha, derails between Daharki Station and Reti Station due to a failed weld joint in the rail. A minute after the derailment, the Sir Syed Express, traveling in the opposite direction from Rawalpindi to Karachi, hits the derailed Millat Express; 65 people are killed and around 150 are injured.[61]
  • 18 June - Queensland - In Queensland, Australia, A Leto train collided onto an ee16 train, 1 person was killed.[62]
  • 9 July - Austria - A railcar strikes a fallen tree on the Mur Valley Railway and derails. One of the three carriages ends up on its side in the Mur. Seventeen people are injured.[63]
  • 15 July - Belgium - A passenger train operated by Siemens Desiro AM08 derails near Grupont due to the trackbed being washed out in severe flooding that affected parts of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.[64]
  • 20 July - China - During the 2021 Henan floods, a Line 5 Zhengzhou Metro train is trapped in a tunnel by floodwaters. Water enters the train cars and rises to chest height. Although 500 people were rescued, 14 drowned.[65]
  • 30 July - United States - Two MBTA Green Line trains collided with each other in downtown Boston. 25 people were reported injured, and one of the drivers was later arrested and charged.[66]
  • 4 August - Czech Republic - Milavče train crash: A DB Class 233 locomotive (223 066) hauling an international service from Munich to Prague passes a stop signal and collides head-on at Milavče with a ČD Class 844 RegioShark hauling a local service from Plzeň to Domažlice. Three people are killed and 42 are injured.
  • 26 August - United States - In St Paul, Minnesota, 3 trains (1 Union Pacific, 1 Canadian Pacific, And 1 BNSF) collided onto each other spilling chlorine into the river.[67]
  • 1 September - New Zealand - a remote-controlled locomotive and the wagon it was shunting plunged into the water at Picton.[68] The wagon was recovered the next day and the locomotive on 3 September.[69]
  • 5 September - Bangladesh - In Moulibazar, Bangladesh, a train collided with a bus stalled on the train tracks, 3 people are dead and 6 people are injured.[70]
  • 8 September - Turkey - Istanbul, Turkey, 2 trains collided onto each other, injuring 7.[71]
  • 25 September – United States – 2021 Montana train derailment: The eight rear Superliner cars of Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder train 7/27, a doubleheader traveling from Chicago to Seattle derail and tipped over near Joplin, Montana at approximately 3:55 pm local time, located nearly 100 miles northeast of Great Falls and 70 miles south of a US/Canadian border between Montana and between the eastern side of Alberta and western side of Saskatoon. Out of the 146 passengers and 16 crew members on board, 3 people were killed according to the Liberty County Sheriff's office, and injuring 50 others. Only 7 of them were hospitalized. This accident occurred on a line known as the Hi-Line, a portion of BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon. Service between Shelby, Montana and Minot, North Dakota was suspended and later Empire Builder trips were truncated to Minneapolis.[72]
  • 8 October - Tunisia - In Carthage Dermech, Tunisia, a commuter train collides with another stopped train, 33 are injured.[73]
  • 8 October - Japan - In Tokyo, Japan, 2 trains derail after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake, 3 are injured.[74]
  • 12 October - United Kingdom - In the Enfield suburb of London, a London Overground train collides with buffers at Enfield Town Train Station, 2 are reported injured, and about 50 are forced to evacuate the train.[75]
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    31 October - United Kingdom - 2021 Salisbury rail crash: Two trains collide in Fisherton Tunnel, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Salisbury railway station, after one of them fails to stop at a red signal. A total of 14 injured, including a train driver, were taken to hospital, with an additional number of walking wounded.[76][77]
  • 9 December - Spain - a passenger train runs into a mudslide between Beasain and Brinkola and is derailed.[78]
  • 9 December - United States - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, In Darby, A Septa Trolley Train Crashes into a Csx Train, 6 people were injured.[79]
  • 11 December - United States - A CSX freight train is derailed at Earlington, Kentucky during the Quad State tornado outbreak.[80]
  • 22 December - Iran - In Tehran, Iran, a Tehran Metro Train crashed into another train after passing a red signal, 22 people were injured.[81]

2022

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