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Cannon Street station rail crash

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168:. The fifth and sixth carriages crushed into each other, lifting one off the tracks. A 24-year-old man, cut free from wreckage crushing his head and abdomen, died from a heart attack on the way to hospital. A 59-year-old woman died three days later from her injuries. 542 other passengers were injured, many because they had stood up ready to leave as the train entered the terminus platform. The inquiry put the impact speed at around 10 mph, higher than the rail operator's earlier estimates. 31: 1750: 1745: 199:
The age of the elderly trains increased the effect of the impact. Of the two coaches that suffered the worst damage, one was built on an underframe dating from 1934, having been refitted with a new body in 1953 and involved in a previous collision with a locomotive in 1958; the other was built on an
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at 07:58, and had over 800 passengers on board after passing through the busy interchange at London Bridge. At 08:44 it collided with the buffer stop at the Cannon Street terminus within the
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Legislation should be introduced to make it an offence for railway staff with safety responsibilities to be intoxicated while on duty. (The main cause of the
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The interior design of the coaches' fittings and the large number of slam doors could have resulted in weaknesses in the structure of the rolling stock.
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The inquiry found that the cause of the accident was solely that of driver error. The report also made the following observations:
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in London, United Kingdom, killing two and injuring 542. The cause was driver error, compounded by ageing wooden carriages.
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More research is needed on the effect of impacts on passengers, particularly standing passengers, on board commuter trains.
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Arrangements for the booking-on of staff should be reviewed (a recommendation also made in the report for the
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A report was compiled of the accident by Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate. No fault in the train's
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On 8 January 1991, a packed commuter train failed to stop and collided with the buffers at
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might have minimised the injury compared to the hydraulic buffer stops in this incident.
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found that there was insufficient evidence to prove drug use had caused the accident.
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A Report of the Collision that Occurred on 8 January 1991 at Cannon Street Station
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indicates railway accidents and incidents resulting in at least 20 fatalities
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could be found and the driver, Maurice Graham, was held to blame. He was not
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would make the finding of evidence easier following railway accidents.
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indicates the deadliest railway accident in British history
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until three days after the accident, whereupon traces of
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The stopping service, composed of 10 cars of elderly
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Index


Cannon Street station
Network SouthEast
List of UK rail accidents by year
Cannon Street station
Class 415
Class 416
Sevenoaks
City of London
braking system
tested for drugs
cannabis
public inquiry
Automatic Train Protection
On-train data recorders
Eltham Well Hall rail crash
buffer stops
Eltham Well Hall rail crash



A Report of the Collision that Occurred on 8 January 1991 at Cannon Street Station


"1991: One dead as train crashes into buffers"
Accident at Cannon Street on 8 January 1991
Photographs of the accident
More photographs of the accident
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