This article lists significant fatal, injury-only, and other accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and other incidents in the Australian state of South Australia. The first known incident in this list occurred in 1873 in Smithfield, South Australia. Orroroo 1901 two killed in head on collision between cattle train and goods train Fatal accidents Glanville, 1880 On 23 September 1880 a woman was run over and killed by an engine at Glanville. She was walking towards the station at Glanville close to the line and within a very short distance of the platform. Dry Creek, 1890 On 21 July 1890, James Cowan, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and his fellow passenger, Mark Bullimore, the local branch manager of the General Electric Supply Company of Australia, were both killed when a train collided with Cowan’s horse-drawn buggy at the intersection of Grand Junction Road and the main railway line running north from Adelaide in the suburb of Dry Creek. Walloway, 1901 On 16 November 1901, two people were killed. The accident was sufficient to condemn in the most scathing terms those who were responsible for the inefficient brake system. There were absolutely no lights to show the driver that he was approaching the station. Fords, 1913 On 13 February 1913 there was a washaway near Fords. An engine and several trucks were derailed. The engine driver was washed away and drowned. Mile End, 1924 On 8 January 1924 a woman who was knocked down and killed at the Mile-End crossing by a train bound for Sleep's Hill. Cutana, 1928 On 15 February 1928 the fireman of a goods train travelling on the narrow gauge Broken Hill line was crushed to death as the result of a washaway. The fireman of the train was killed. Copley, 1944 On 11 May 1944, four people killed. A goods train ran into the rear of a halted troop train at Copley, 604 km north of Adelaide, telescoping the rear cars and resulting in 4 deaths and 27 injuries. The troop train, consisting of 16 carriages, 4 fully laden goods trucks and a brake van, was pulled by a T class loco. However, the consist was too heavy for the loco, and it had problems with its injectors after climbing a steep hill. The loco was low on water, and uncoupled from the train to 'run light' to the nearest watering spot