Collision despite driver of lead waiting locomotives starting to reverse when he saw other train approaching. Safety by Event. It was the morning of 28 February 2001. Train of tank wagons carrying petrol ran out of control and crashed through buffers at. [376], The 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project is uncovering details of British and Irish staff accidents before 1939 and making them freely available, via a database of transcriptions of staff accident investigations and other related records.