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Amagasaki derailment

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971: 832:. The first car slid into the first-floor parking garage and as a result took days to remove, while the second slammed into the corner of the building, being crushed into an L-shape against it by the weight of the remaining cars. Of the roughly 700 passengers (initial estimate was 580 passengers) on board at the time of the crash, 106 passengers, in addition to the driver, were killed and 562 others injured. Most survivors and witnesses claimed that the train appeared to have been travelling too fast. The incident was Japan's most serious since the 1963 950: 958: 864: 546: 654: 439: 431: 475: 1077: 594: 573: 566: 464: 388: 380: 647: 640: 491: 423: 416: 484: 580: 557: 498: 407: 372: 266: 587: 350: 342: 318: 287: 295: 1007:
the same platform to allow people to transfer between rapid and local trains running on the same line. As a result, a small delay in one train can significantly cascade through the timetable for the rest of the day due to the tightness of the schedule. Immediately after the crash occurred, some of the mass media pointed to the congested schedule of the
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Investigators speculate that the driver may have been trying to make up this lost time by increasing the train's speed beyond customary limits. Many reports from surviving passengers indicate that the train was traveling at a faster than normal speed. Furthermore, it is speculated that the driver may
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On 8 July 2009, JR West president Masao Yamazaki was charged with professional negligence resulting in deaths and injuries, as he was in charge of safety measures in 1996 when the company rebuilt railway tracks to sharpen the curve at the accident's site. Prosecutors said that he failed to put in an
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due to his prior infractions that morning, that he did not notice that the train was going too fast. When the driver did notice, four seconds before the derailment, he used the service brake instead of the emergency brake, presumably to avoid another infraction as using the emergency brake had to be
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JR West is very strict when it comes to punctuality, and commuters often depend on near-perfect timing on the part of trains to commute to and from work on time. This is because at JR West stations (including the derailed train's next scheduled stop at Amagasaki Station) trains meet on both sides of
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The front four cars derailed completely, with the first car ramming into the parking lot of the apartment building and the second car colliding into the external wall of the building becoming almost completely compacted by the third and fourth cars, which were themselves pushed from the rear by the
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The section where the crash occurred, between Amagasaki and Takarazuka stations, was re-opened for service on 19 June 2005. The rail speed limits around the site of the accident were reduced from 120 to 95 km/h (75 to 59 mph) for the straight section and from 70 to 60 km/h (43 to
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on the segment of track where the derailment happened was 70 km/h (43 mph). The data recorder in the rear of the train (the rear cars were new and equipped with many extra devices) later showed that the train was moving at 116 km/h (72 mph) at that point. Investigators ran a
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It is believed that a contributing factor in the accident was JR West's policy of schedule punctuality. As a result, Masataka Ide, a JR West adviser who played a major role in enforcing the punctuality of the company's trains, announced that he would resign in June 2005. JR West's chairman and
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police, out of the 107 deaths, at least 43 (27 men and 16 women), including the driver, were in the first car; at least 45 (22 men and 23 women) were in the second car; and at least one was in the third car. This information was determined by questioning 519 of the approximately 550 injured
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On 26 December 2005, Takeshi Kakiuchi officially resigned from the presidency of JR West in a move intended to take responsibility for the accident. Kakiuchi's successor was Masao Yamazaki, who had previously served as the railway's vice president, based in
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Investigators primarily focused on the speeding by the 23-year-old driver, later identified as Ryūjirō Takami (who was among the dead), as being the most likely cause of the derailment. Twenty-five minutes before the derailment, the driver had
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Nagata, Takashi; Rosborough, Stephanie N.; VanRooyen, Michael J.; Kozawa, Shuichi; Ukai, Takashi; Nakayama, Shinichi (September–October 2006). "Express Railway Disaster in Amagasaki: A Review of Urban Disaster Response Capacity in Japan".
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In 2017, the building hit by the train was demolished. In 2018, a memorial facility and monument were built at the accident site by JR West. Part of the condominium building was preserved and the location was covered with a roof.
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do not regulate the distance between train lines and residential buildings due to high confidence in the engineering of the rail system. As a result, railway lines often pass close to residential buildings in metropolitan areas.
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As of 2024, the report for this incident still takes a prominent place on JR West's Japanese homepage. A translation of the text reads "We will never forget the Fukuchiyama Line train accident that occurred on 25 April 2005."
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series of simulations and calculated that the train would derail on that curve if going over 106 km/h (66 mph). It has been speculated that the driver was so stressed about the inevitability of going back to
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as an indirect factor. In fact, cumulative changes over the previous three years had reduced the leeway in the train's schedule from 71 to 28 seconds over the fifteen minutes between Takarazuka and Amagasaki stations.
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system, which could have halted the train. On the same day, Yamazaki announced that he would resign "so the company can operate normally", but would remain as a member of the company's
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have felt stressed because he would have been punished for the two infractions. Ten months before the crash, the driver had been reprimanded by the train's operator, the
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with more than 3 carriages, requiring him to back up the train, and resulting in a 90-second delay, about four minutes before the disaster. By the time the train passed
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asked all railway companies to update their automatic stopping systems so that trains would brake automatically and slow down as they approached sharp curves.
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to display some of the train cars involved in the accident and the belongings of the dead. Completion is slated for around December 2025.
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Drivers for JR West face financial penalties for lateness as well as being forced into harsh and humiliating retraining programs known as
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Train Derailment Accident between Tsukaguchi and Amagasaki Stations of the Fukuchiyama Line of the West Japan Railway Company (Excerpt)
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The apartment building where the accident took place being demolished in 2016. A JR West 321 series train is seen in the photo.
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Nagase, Kazuhiko (July 2005). "福知山線脱線事故の問題を語る" [Discussing the problems of the Fukuchiyama Line derailment].
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As of 2024, the accident remains the fifth-deadliest train crash in Japanese history, behind the
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article stated that survivors of the disaster still faced physical and mental health issues.
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on curve arising from a fear of harsh penalties for lateness and JR West's retraining system
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The train involved was train number 5418M, a limited-stop "Rapid" commuter service from
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at a speed of 120 km/h (75 mph), the delay had been reduced to 60 seconds.
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In February 2023, JR West began to construct a new facility at a training center in
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The English translation of an excerpt of the investigation report of the accident
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A 207 series EMU train similar to the one involved in the Amagasaki rail crash
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of 1989 (4 from derailment and 2 from pipeline explosion) and 2 in 1996.
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winning documentary film on the accident by Kyoko Miyake.
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