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The Murazze di Vado train disaster was a railway accident which occurred on April 15, 1978, near Murazze di Vado, an area in the town of Vado, part of the Monzuno comune, Bologna. A passenger train was derailed close to a ravine, and seconds later a second train crashed into it. With 42 killed and 76 injured, it is the fourth highest death toll in the history of the Italian railways, after the Balvano, Fiumarella and Voghera disasters. While the official count of the injured is 76, the actual number of injured is often said to be from 117 to more than 120.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.118er.it/internet/118bo/118_lastoria.pdf )〕 ==Derailment and crash== Passenger train "572 bis", pulled by two engines (FS Class E.645.016 and FS Class E.636.282), was traveling along the ''Direttissima'' (Florence–Rome high-speed railway) line between Florence and Bologna when, shortly after noon, it was derailed by a small landslide that fell onto the rails. The railway track passed metres from a ravine along the A1 motorway, but the train fortunately stopped shortly before falling: up to that point, no major injuries had been caused by the accident. The "Rapido 813", nicknamed "Freccia della Laguna", coming from Bolzano and heading to Rome was running on the opposite track: the train was made up of two FS Class ALe 601 units, 051 and 067, along with FS Class Le 480.010 and FS Class Le 601.024 coaches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.leferrovie.it/leferrovie/schede/elettrico/ale/ale601/situazione/ )〕 The Freccia della Laguna was on a rapid service, thus traveling at medium-high speed, when it hit the derailed train, still balanced on the side of the ravine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Il Lato Oscuro: Murazze di Vado )〕 The crash forced the four cars of Rapido 813 into the gorge: the two engines from 572 bis were lifted from their bogies, the bodies being crushed, falling to one side and coming to rest one above the other, with E.645 on top. Among the passengers were the Verona soccer team who at the time were in the restaurant car, one of the less damaged cars, and so escaped the disaster unscathed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murazze di Vado train disaster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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