page_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019)
section_title: 2010
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019) / 2010
caption_attribution_description: English: Rescue work in progress near the accident site
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents which occurred between 2010 and 2019.
context_section_description: 2 January 2010 – India – The first of three accidents on the same day in Uttar Pradesh near the town of Etawah, occurs about 170 miles (270 kilometres) southwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, when the Lichchavi Express entering the station in heavy fog runs into the stationary Magadh Express train stopped there. Ten people, including the driver of one of the trains, are injured. At least 10 people were reported to have been killed.
  The Gorakhdham Express and Prayagraj Express collide near the Panki railway station in Kanpur, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Lucknow, left five people dead and about 40 injured.
  At Pratapgarh, 61 kilometres (38 mi) from Allahabad, the Sarayu Express ploughs into a tractor trailer at an unmanned railway crossing. Though nobody was injured, the engine of the train was severely damaged.
  2 January 2010 – India – The Arunachal Pradesh Express derails near Helem. All seven cars leave the track. No injuries were reported. Timely actions of operators and a guard diverted the train to a secondary track, and the platform was evacuated. One of the carriages plunged into a Holiday Inn hotel's offices causing severe structural damage. There were no casualties. Only the conductor of the train, which carried no passengers, was slightly hurt.
  3 January 2010 – Turkey – Two trains collide between Bayirkoy and Vezirhan. One person is killed and three are injured.
  4 January 2010 – Finland – Helsinki Central railway station accident – A passenger train suffers a brake failure and crashes into a hotel at Helsinki Central station.
  12 February 2010 – United States – At 10.13, a train derails in the pocket track just north of Farragut North Washington Metro station when the front car leaves the tracks. Of the nearly 400 passengers on board, one person was taken to hospital. The NTSB concluded that the train operator (driver) was at fault for rule violations, including continuing past a red signal without authorization. Contributing factors were poor supervision of the operator which prevented correct configuration of the train for the signal and control system. There were also difficulties with the radio systems.
  15 February 2010 – Belgium – Halle train collision - Two passenger trains collide laterally in Buizingen near Brussels. 19 people were killed and 171 were injured.
  25 February 2010 – Canada – A Via Rail train 15 travelling from Halifax to Montreal derails near Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse outside Quebec City, injuring four people and causing significant damage to nearby homes.
  15 March 2010 – United States – A METRO bus collides with a light rail METRO train in Houston, Texas, injuring nearly 20 people. Police and METRO investigators claim that the bus ran a traffic light that was red for ten seconds before the bus passed it at 29 miles per hour (47 km/h).
  24 March 2010 – Norway – 2010 Sjursøya train crash - Sixteen goods wagons runaway for 8 km (5 mi) from a goods yard at Alnabu in Oslo, hitting and destroying a quayside warehouse. Three people died and four were seriously injured.
  1 April 2010 – Slovakia – A locomotive runs into a stationary passenger train after its brakes fail during a test ride in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, killing three people and seriously injuring eight.
  12 April 2010 – Italy – 2010 Merano train derailment - A passenger train is hit by a landslide and partially derails near Merano, South Tyrol, killing 9 and injuring 28.
  21 April 2010 – South Africa – Pretoria train accident - The coaches of a luxury tourist train operated by Rovos Rail run away and derail at Pretoria during a locomotive changeover. Three crew members died in the incident: two died at the scene while the third, a woman four months pregnant, died in the hospital. The accident left 9 passengers injured, six of them critically.
  4 May 2010 – Australia – A passenger train collides with a freight train approximately 3 km (2 mi) south of Craigieburn railway station, injuring 5.
  13 May 2010 – United States – A northbound Amtrak Piedmont collides with a truck towing a low loader in Mebane, North 
caption: Sainthia collision: rescue work in progress
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