Benavídez rail disaster

A train from Tucumán ran at speed into a Zárate to Retiro service that had been stopped on the line by a mechanical fault, in the Buenos Aires province locality north of the capital. Argentine press accounts of the toll differ: La Nación reported 142 dead and 368 injured in one account and 236 dead in another, while RPP gives 236.

Date
1970-02-01
Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
236
What the pin marks
The accident site, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benav%C3%ADdez_rail_disaster

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: rail collision, argentina, stationary train

Coordinates: -34.4225, -58.66806

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