(England) 1650, April and July – , (County Durham), England. Two boys run down by a wagon on a wooden coal tramway, and killed., ''Signal Failure: Politics & Britain's Railways'', p. 46. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-3293-6. Cited as ''the earliest known railway accident''.
1830
(England) September 15, 1830 – , England: becomes first widely-reported (passenger train) death. Killed by at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
(United States) December 1830 – (Maryland), United States: On the Baltimore & Ohio the driver of a crowded horse-drawn coach falls from his seat and is killed beneath the wheels, the first fatal accident on a railroad in the US.
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