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Tempi train crash
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collision of two trains in Greece, 28 February 2023
Key facts
- Date
- 28 February 2023 ( 2023-02-28 ) , 23:21 EET (21:21 UTC )
- Location
- Near Evangelismos , Tempi , Larissa , Thessaly
- Country
- Greece
- Line
- Athens–Thessaloniki mainline
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Owner
- Network manager: OSE , Train operator: Hellenic Train
- Service
- Athens – Thessaloniki ( IC ) Thessaloniki – Athens (freight train)
- Incident type
- Head-on collision between two trains
- Cause
- Human error, outdated infrastructure, major systemic failures
- Missing
- 1 (officially included in the 57 deaths)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- head-on collision
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Tempi Municipality
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Location
- Evangelismos
- Number of deaths
- 57
- Number of injured
- 85
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- number of missing
- 1
- Commons category
- Tempi train crash
- vessel
- passenger train
- point in time
- 2023-02-28
- connecting line
- Piraeus-Platy railway
- has cause
- human error
- start point
- Athens
- destination point
- Thessaloniki
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Encyclopedic overview
Memorial for the victims of Tempi Train Disaster in Thessaloniki Seaside
On 28 February 2023, a head-on collision occurred between two trains south of the Tempe Valley in Greece, about halfway between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos in the Thessaly region. The collision, follow-up derailment and fireball that ensued involving the InterCity 62 (IC62) passenger train operated by Hellenic Train and an intermodal freight train, killed 57, heavily injured 81 and lightly injured 99 people. The estimated number of people were 352 on the passenger train including 10 staff, and 2 staff on the freight train totalling 354 people on both trains. It is the most serious railway accident in Europe since 2013, when a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela killed 79 people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tempi train crash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.