Transported to Siberia in 1945 as a Russian prisoner of war and starved nearly to death, he lost his legs when a train smashed into the lorry carrying him to a new labour camp in Stalin's gulag.
(Poe moldered for years in an unmarked grave, after a derailed train smashed a headstone intended to mark the spot. In 1875, he was dug up and interred again).
A freight train smashed into a minivan stuck on the tracks in Elm Grove as a police officer struggled to help a man pull his wife and baby to safety.
Among other incidents, 30 people were injured on March 10 this year when a passenger train smashed into another train at Waterloo Station in London.
Seconds later, Caltrain engine 385, a commuter train, smashed into his vehicle.
Impertinent psychologising possessed me while the film redeemed itself with a splendidly Shakespearean car and train smash.
A New Jersey Transit commuter train smashed into a tractor-trailer truck hauling paint at a railroad crossing in Little Falls, N.J., early Wednesday morning, injuring several commuters, the police said.
Almost at once, a Glasgow-bound express train smashed into the wreckage at the Quintinshill signal box, setting off a fire which engulfed the troop train, which was packed with nearly 500 members of the Leith Battalion of the Royal Scots.
