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Yokohama rail crash



The Yokohama rail crash （Japanese:鶴見事故　”Tsurumi　Accident”）occurred on November 9 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shinkoyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama city (about 30 km from Tokyo), Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, when two passenger trains collided with a derailed freight train, killing 161 people.



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