Big Bayou Canot rail accident
1993 train wreck in Alabama, U.S.
Big Bayou Canot rail accident
The Big Bayou Canot rail accident was the derailment of the Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Mobile County, Alabama near Mobile, Alabama, on September 22, 1993. It was caused by displacement of a span and deformation of the rails when a tow of heavy barges collided with the rail bridge eight minutes earlier. Forty-seven people were killed and 103 more were injured. To date, it is the deadliest train wreck in both Amtrak's history and Alabama's railway history. It is also the deadliest rail disaster in the United States since the 1958 Newark Bay rail accident, in which 48 people died.
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