The Naka-Meguro train disaster is a train accident which occurred in Japan on 8 March 2000. 5 people were killed and 63 were injured when a derailed Eidan Hibiya Line train was sideswiped by a second train near Naka-Meguro Station.
Accident events
At around 9 a.m. on 8 March 2000, the rearmost car of an 8-car Eidan Hibiya Line (now Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line) train from Kita-Senju to Kikuna derailed on the tight curve immediately before Naka-Meguro Station. The derailed car was then hit by the fifth and sixth cars of an 8-car Tobu Railway train travelling in the opposite direction from Naka-Meguro to Takenotsuka.
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