| 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 The train after crashing | |||
| Details | |||
| Date | 22 February 2012 08:33 ART | ||
| Location | Buenos Aires | ||
| Coordinates | 34°36′31″S 58°24′27″W / 34.60861°S 58.40750°W | ||
| Country | Argentina | ||
| Line | Sarmiento Line | ||
| Operator | Trenes de Buenos Aires | ||
| Incident type | Train wreck | ||
| Cause | Motorman error, brake failure | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Trains | 1 | ||
| Deaths | 51[1] | ||
| Injured | 703[2] | ||
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The 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, also known as the Once Tragedy, occurred on 22 February 2012, when a train crashed at Once Station (Spanish: Estación Once de Septiembre; IPA: [ˈonse]) in the Balvanera neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
There were about 1,000 passengers on board when the crowded eight-carriage train, whose working brakes were not activated, hit the buffers at the end of the line, crushing the motor carriage and the following two carriages, after approaching the station at a speed of 26 km/h (16 mph). Fifty-one people were killed and more than 700 were injured;[1] the dead and seriously injured were in the first two carriages,[3] which were packed with people who had moved to the front of the train to be near the station exit on arrival.
The Sarmiento Line, on which the incident occurred, was operated by Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA), owned by the Cirigliano brothers. It was the second fatal accident on the line within six months, following the 2011 Flores rail crash, and the third-deadliest train accident in Argentina's history, after the Benavídez rail disaster in 1970 (which left 236 dead and 368 injured) and the Sa Pereira rail disaster in 1978 (which left 55 dead).[4]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
brakeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Identificaron a los 50 fallecidos en Plaza Miserere" [50 Dead bodies were identified in Plaza Miserere]. Clarín (in Spanish). 23 February 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ Rozenwasser, Einat (25 February 2012). "Un operativo que resultó eficaz pero que ahora revela fallas". Clarín (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ "El tercer accidente ferroviario más grave en la historia del país" [The third worst rail accident in the country's history]. La Nación (in Spanish). 22 February 2012. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.