page_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019)
section_title: 2013
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019) / 2013
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents which occurred between 2010 and 2019.
context_section_description: 10 January 2013 – Switzerland – 2013 Neuhausen am Rheinfall train collision – Two trains collided on the Rheinfall railway line, about 360 metres (1,180 ft) from the station at Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland. 27 people were injured.
  15 January 2013 – Egypt – Badrashin railway accident – A passenger train derailed at Giza and collided with a freight train. 29 people died and 230 were injured.
  15 January 2013 – Sweden – 2013 Saltsjöbanan train crash – A passenger train on the Saltsjöbanan overran a set of buffer stops and crashed into a block of flats at Stockholm. While it was first announced that a cleaner had driven the train without authority, further investigations revealed that she accidentally started the train that was parked in a depot without proper safety measures. She was seriously injured, no one else was injured.
  21 January 2013 – Austria – Two Vienna S-Bahn trains packed with morning commuters collided on a single-track stretch of line between Hütteldorf and Penzing in Vienna's suburbs in eastern Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously. Among the injured was the driver of one of the trains. Both trains were operating the Line S45 service, and both trains were made up of 4024-series rolling stock.
  21 January 2013 – Portugal – Alfarelos train crash - An InterCity train from Lisbon to Porto collides with a Regional train that it was supposed to overtake, after both trains fail to stop before a signal on red at Alfarelos, leaving 25 people injured.
  23 January 2013 – Slovakia – An intercity train IC507 from Bratislava to Košice hits a snowplow vehicle near Liptovský Mikuláš around 21.00 CET. The train driver died.
  31 January 2013 – Australia – A passenger train overshot the railway line and collided with Cleveland railway station, severely damaging a toilet block and injuring 14 people. The train was removed from the station in the early hours of the following morning.
  31 January 2013 – South Africa – Two passenger trains packed with school children and rush-hour commuters collided near Pretoria, South Africa, injuring up to 300 people, 28 of them seriously. A moving train slammed into the back of a stationary train near Kalafong station.
  12 February 2013 – Japan – 15 people are injured when a Sanyo Electric Railway non-stop limited express train approaching Arai station collides with the rear end of a lorry and derails.
  21 March 2013 – United Kingdom – 1 man dies after his car is struck by a First Great Western InterCity 125 at Athelney level Crossing in Somerset. It is suspected that the driver attempted to weave around the half-lane barriers.
  10 April 2013 – India – Seven compartments of the 15228 Muzaffarpur-Yeshvantpur Weekly Express derailed near Arakkonam, 40 km from Chennai killing one passenger and leaving another seriously injured.
  16 April 2013 – France – At 08:30 a regional EMU travelling from Miramas to Marseille crashes at 30 km/h into a crane-lorry on a level crossing. The crane driver is seriously injured and thirty two passengers have minor injuries.
  26 April 2013 – United States – At a rural Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad crossing, in Butler County, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), an Allegheny Valley Railroad freight train carrying asphalt (with 2 locomotives, 29 cars; traveling at the 25 mph limit) strikes an Alliance for Nonprofit Resources Inc. Butler Area Rural Transit Authority bus carrying impaired seniors and younger adults at the Maple Street intersection. It's unclear whether the bus stopped on or before the tracks; the train's brakes are believed to have been applied and the horn to have sounded. Two people are flown by helicopter to area trauma centres–one was in critical condition, and a 91-year-old woman dies later at Allegheny General Hospital. Ten others, including the bus driver, are also hospitalised.
  30 April 2013 – Chile – A freight train derails near Collipulli and is then assaulted by men with fireweapons. Interior minister Andrés Chadwick says the Chilean Antiterrorist Law would be applied to those responsible for the attack.
  2 May 2013 – Serbia – Two
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