Possible: locomotive engineer/brakeman fatigue, or heart attack or stroke[1][2]
Unknown reasons: engineer/brakeman failures[2]
Conductor error[2]
Statistics
Trains
2
Passengers
94
Crew
24
Deaths
23[1]
Injured
71[1]
On February 8, 1986, twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a Via Rail passenger train called the Super Continental, including the engine crews of both trains. It was the deadliest rail disaster in Canada since the Dugald accident of 1947, which had thirty-one fatalities, and was not surpassed until the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in 2013, which resulted in 47 deaths.
After 56 days of testimony at a public inquiry, a commission concluded that the collision was caused by the freight head end crew failing to stop their train because of incapacitation or other unknown factors, while the conductor in the caboose failed to use the emergency brake to stop the train. The report also highlighted serious flaws in the culture and safety practices at Canadian National Railway.
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