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Actually, there has been exactly one fatal ICE accident. Unfortunately, that was also the worst high speed rail accident worldwide so far: http://en.wikipedia.
by brazzy 15y ago
Actually, there has been exactly one fatal ICE accident. Unfortunately, that was also the worst high speed rail accident worldwide so far:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster
A design error led to a mechanical failure, which caused a derailment at the worst possible location...
- Anechoic 15y agoThe interesting thing about that disaster is that rail safety folks from both the US and Europe I've spoken to have all said that if it had been the Acela in that accident there would have been far fewer fatalities due to FRA crashworithness requirements.