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Technological hazards: transport accidents
Air accident Rail accident Road accident Water/maritime accident
Definition and characteristics


Disaster type term used to describe technological transport accidents involving mechanised modes of transport. It comprises of four disaster subsets: accidents involving air, boat, rail transport and accidents involving motor vehicles on roads and tracks.

An investigator looks out from the wreckage of two burnt sleeping carriages near the town of Cherven Bryag, some 120km (75miles) north-east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia in February 2008.  REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

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