Railway accident

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A railway accident (also known as a train accident, train wreck, and train crash) is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, for example when a moving train meets another train on the same track, when the wheels of train come off the track, or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train accidents have often been widely covered in popular media and in folklore. A head-on collision between two trains is colloquially called a "cornfield meet" in the United States. Railway accidents can result from a combination of technical failures, human factors, infrastructure conditions, and organizational or regulatory issues. Modern safety research often treats railway systems as complex socio-technical systems in which accidents arise from interactions among multiple components rather than a single cause.

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