side track for an express from Madrid to Barcelona, but overshoots and the trains collide head-on at 4:00 am in weather, killing 47 people and injuring at least 64. December 19 – United States – The Seaboard Air Line Sunbeam and an Atlantic Coast Line freight collide at a right-angle crossing at Zephyrhills, Florida, killing Benjamin J. Green, engineer of the Sunbeam, in his cab, and injuring ten of the passengers and crew. "Trainmen on both railroads said they did not know what caused the accident, but believed the automatic signals had gone wrong. Normally, the passenger train would have had the right of way, they said." December(?) – Mexico – A repair train derails near Iguala and falls down a cliff. There are 71 deaths. 1941 January 6 – Hungary – An accident at Berettyóújfalu kills 20 soldiers. February 10 – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway passenger train overruns signals and runs into the rear of an express train at Harold Wood, Essex. Seven people are killed and seventeen are seriously injured. February 15 – Spain – During a storm, an electric train on the metre-gauge railway from San Sebastián to Bilbao loses power and stops on a bridge at Zumaia. Then the wind increases and blows three cars of the train off the bridge and into the river below, killing 20 people and injuring over 100. February 21 – United States – Piedmont & Northern train no. 5, westbound through a curve near Fairmont Station, eight miles (13 km) west of Spartanburg, South Carolina, strikes rear of stopped freight. Flagman jumps from electric ex-Pennsylvania Railroad combine no. 350 before impact with steel caboose, but engineer killed. Fifteen other passengers in following ex-PRR trailer are injured. mid-March – Chile – An accident at Calera kills 20 people and injures at least 60. April 23 – Uganda Protectorate – A derailment near Kampala kills 20 people. April 28 – United Kingdom – The three rear cars of an 11-car London and North Eastern Railway express train from London to Newcastle are reserved for a party of about 100 teenage boys returning to Ampleforth College. Some of the boys begin playing with matches, accidentally starting a fire, but not initially understanding its severity. By the time the train is stopped at Westborough, the fire is spreading to all three cars, which are destroyed. Six of the boys