page_title: List of rail accidents (2000–2009)
section_title: 2005
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (2000–2009) / 2005
caption_attribution_description: English: The Amagasaki rail crash, occurred on 25 April 2005 at Amagasaki, near Osaka, Japan. 日本語: JR福知山線脱線事故
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents from 2000 to 2009.
context_section_description: January 6, 2005 – United States – Graniteville train disaster, Graniteville, South Carolina. 9 people (including the engineer) died and 250+ were injured when a 42-car Norfolk Southern freight train collided head-on with a parked local freight train near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville. 16 cars (including a tank car that ruptured 90 tons of chlorine gas into the air) derailed in the accident, leading to the 9 deaths and 250+ injuries. The NTSB determined that the cause of the accident was the failure of the local freight's crew members to realign the switch for mainline operations.
  January 7, 2005 – Italy – Crevalcore train crash. A passenger train running from Verona to Bologna fails to stop at a red light and collides frontally with a freight train, near Crevalcore. There was dense fog at the time of the accident. 17 die.
  January 17, 2005 – Thailand – an empty MRT (Bangkok) train returning to the depot collided with another train filled with passengers at the Thailand Cultural Centre MRT Station. 140 people were hurt, most of whom sustained only minor injuries, and the entire Metro network was shut down for two weeks. More at MRT accident
  January 26, 2005 – United States – Glendale train crash, Glendale, California. In a planned suicide attempt in which the suspect changes his mind, a southbound Metrolink double-deck commuter train collides with the man's vehicle that he has driven onto the tracks and then abandoned.  The southbound train derails, then strikes both a moving northbound Metrolink train on the adjacent track as well as a parked Union Pacific Railroad freight train on a siding. 11 people die, about 100 injured.
  February 3, 2005 – India – Nagpur level crossing disaster. A tractor-trailer carrying a wedding party is hit by a train. 55 wedding guests die.
  February 9, 2005 – Latvia – A Lielvarde-Riga passenger train collides with empty stock heading for Riga train depot, killing four people and injuring 32. Official report states that the conductor had missed the red signal.
  February 14, 2005 — United States – Oxnard, California. An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner passenger train traveling from Los Angeles Union Station collided with a semi-truck loaded with strawberries at the Rice Avenue grade crossing. The truck driver, who had stopped at the crossing, suddenly encountered a green traffic light that conflicted the crossing gates coming down. This confused the driver, who started crossing the tracks then, but the traffic light suddenly turned red after a few seconds, making the truck driver stop without realising that the rest of her truck was still on the tracks. The train was traveling too fast to stop in time and completely destroyed the truck's trailer, severely damaging the locomotive and spilling diesel fuel at the crash site. No one was killed, but a few passengers of the train had minor injuries.
  February 14, 2005  – Denmark – Lyngby. An S-train to Høje Tåstrup runs into a stopped S-train which was heading for Køge at 60–70 km/h. 2 passengers and a driver were seriously injured. Snow which had settled on the signals made them difficult to read, meaning the train could not be stopped in time.
  February 28, 2005 – Sweden – Ledsgard. A chlorine tanker train derails due to brake failure after they were wrongly set to "empty". The line was closed for 2 weeks.
  March 11, 2005 -United States – Rochelle, Illinois. A collision took place between a Loram rail grinding work train, and a BNSF transportation freight train. The accident occurred at the at-grade crossing of Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway tracks.
  April 21, 2005 – India – Vadodara rail collision Collision between freight and passenger express train; 18 people die.
  April 25, 2005 – Japan – Amagasaki rail crash, Amagasaki, Hyōgo. A train derails on sharp curve and smashes into an apartment building. 107 people die, 549 are injured. Investigation shows the driver was speeding because of a slight delay.
  April 26, 2005 – Sri Lanka – Polgahawela level crossing collision, a bus tries to beat the train at a level crossing; at least 35 people die, al
caption: Investigation at the scene of the Amagasaki rail crash.
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