A runaway train in 2005 was stopped by a heroic controlled head-on collision
A runaway train in Poland forced railway officials to make a split-second, life-saving decision: stop the speeding cars by intentionally crashing another locomotive into them head-on.
A terrifying crisis unfolded in 2005 when a passenger train traveling through southern Poland lost its brakes on a steep downhill slope. With the train gaining dangerous speed and hurtling toward a populated station, dispatchers realized they had only one way to prevent a catastrophe. They cleared the tracks and ordered another locomotive to drive directly into the runaway's path.
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