The Firozabad rail collision occurred on 20 August 1995 near Firozabad on the Delhi-Kanpur section of India's Northern Railway, at 02:55[1] when a passenger train collided with a train which had stopped after hitting a nilgai, killing 358 people.
[3] The crash happened in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
The first train, the Kalindi Express from Kanpur, struck a nilgai and could not proceed due to damaged brakes.
It was then struck from behind at a speed of 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph)[4] by the Purushottam Express from Puri.
Most of the 2,200 passengers aboard the two trains were asleep at the time of the collision.