Passengers demand withdrawal of a "cursed train"

Passengers in Croatia are demanding that the unlucky No.13 tram service is withdrawn after a series of accidents. Dozens of people have been hurt on the service in Zagreb over the decades, leading locals to become convinced it is cursed.

‘We may have to renumber the route,’ an official said.

Halloween 1954 saw the worst accident involving the tram. On October 31, it jumped off its track at 80 kilometres per hour, rolled over four times and knocked down a number of trees before finally slamming into a pole.

After the accident, in which 19 people died, the driver was found to be at fault but the tram was abolished. The No.13 tram came back 'on track' 42 years later, however, and was involved in four accidents in just a month of its 1996 existence.

Despite being out of service for over 40 years, it became the tram with the greatest number of accidents ever within 12 months. In another accident in 2008, which happened at 13.00 in the afternoon, 13 people were injured.

The latest in the tram's spooky string of accidents took place last week, when several people were hurt after it was hit by the No.3 tram as it stood at the station.


/Metro.co.uk/