| Šakvice train disaster | |
| Coordinates: | 48.9142°N 16.7014°W |
| Location: | Šakvice |
| Country: | Czechoslovakia |
| Type: | Collision |
| Trains: | 2 |
| Deaths: | 103 |
| Injuries: | 83 |
The Šakvice train disaster occurred on 24 December 1953 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured. The Ministry of the Interior said there was gross negligence by a number of railway men who had since been arrested. Other reports said that the express train crew had consumed a number of bottles of wine. Other sources have over 100 or 186 deaths.
This disaster was one of the 20 most serious rail incidents by death toll at the time.[1]