curve resulting in the deaths of 31 and injuring nearly 140. The train had left Albany 21 minutes behind schedule and the engineer was trying to make up time. May 5 – France – A train from Paris to Montluçon is wrecked when a flood-weakened bridge collapses under it between Épineuil-le-Fleuriel and Vallon-en-Sully; 33 die and 46 are seriously injured. May 18 – France – Morgny-la-Pommeraye: During the mass movement of people resulting from the German invasion of Belgium, a train of Belgian refugees collides with a train of French refugees, resulting in the deaths of 53 people and injuring 128; the driver at fault is prosecuted for negligent homicide. July 31 – United States – Doodlebug disaster – Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States: The PRR "Doodlebug", a gasoline-electric interurban car, fails to take a siding and collides with an oncoming freight, causing the gas tanks to explode. The crew jump before the crash; all 43 passengers die as the wreck burns too intensely to allow rescuers near for half an hour. A federal investigation suggests the Doodlebug's driver had become disoriented due to carbon monoxide in a poorly ventilated cab. August 5 – British India – The Dacca Mail (Dacca is now Dhaka, Bangladesh) on the Eastern Bengal Railway is derailed at Jairampur, from Calcutta (now Kolkata) by track sabotage; 34 people dead and 50 injured. October 14 – United Kingdom – A London Midland and Scottish Railway express passenger train derails at , Middlesex when a platform barrow falls onto the track. A number of people die and many are injured. November 4 – United Kingdom – 1940 Norton Fitzwarren rail crash: A Great Western Railway train driver reads the signals for the main track when his train is on the relief track that ends there, and runs off the end of it. Coaches telescope, resulting in the deaths of 27 and injuring 75. Contributory causes include a nonstandard placement of signals and the invisibility of the tracks during the wartime blackout. November 14 – German-occupied Belgium – A train from Tienen collides with a stationary train in Diegem station, just outside Brussels; 21 die. November 19 – German-occupied Norway – Hommelvik train collision: Freight and passenger trains collide at Malvik, east of Trondheim; 22 die. Sabotage is suspected. December 3 – Spain – Velilla de Ebro: A westbound express from Barcelona is supposed to wait on a