page_title: Marhanets train accident
section_title: Accident
hierarchical_section_title: Marhanets train accident / Accident
caption_attribution_description: Political map of Ukraine, highlighting Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
context_page_description: The Marhanets train accident occurred on 12 October 2010, at Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine when a train collided with a passenger bus on a railroad level crossing. 43 people were reported dead and nine injured. The bus driver, whose actions allegedly caused the collision, was killed in the accident as well. The collision was the worst single road accident in Ukraine's history by number of victims.
context_section_description: The collision between a midibus carrying around 48 passengers and a locomotive occurred at 08:30 a.m. local time (05:30 UTC) at an unmanned automated railway crossing. Of those who were killed, 38 died at the scene and the others in hospitals from their injuries.
  Ukrzaliznytsia's press service reported that a preliminary theory on the cause of the accident was the violation of traffic rules by the driver of the bus.
caption: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in Ukraine
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