Lujerului tram accident | |
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Details | |
Date | 10 May 2012 7:11 AM |
Location | Lujerului Underpass |
Country | Romania |
Line | 41 |
Operator | RATB |
Incident type | collision |
Cause | human error |
Statistics | |
Trains | 3 |
Vehicles | V3A trams 110, 296 and 300 |
Passengers | over 200 |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | ~100 |
Damage | see below |
The Lujerului tram crash took place on 10 May 2012 in Militari, a neighborhood in Bucharest, Romania. During rush hour, a tram broke down and the driver of a third tram failed to stop, hitting a second tram that had stopped.
This was one of the two tram accidents that took place in Bucharest in the same year. Later on 18 July 2012, another less-serious accident took place in at the Rahova-Ferentari intersection.