The 1991 Japanese Shigaraki train disaster (the deadliest Japanese train crash between 1963 and 2005) happened on the SKR Shigaraki Line when a train from Kyoto collided with a JR West train at the Onotani Signal Station, the only place where two trains should have been able to safely pass.
The Shigaraki train disaster (, Shigaraki Kogen Tetsudo shototsu jiko) was a railway accident that occurred in Shigaraki (now Koka), Shiga Prefecture, Japan on May 14, 1991. 
Until the Amagasaki rail crash in 2005, this was the deadliest railway disaster in Japan since the Yokohama rail crash of 1963, which killed 161 people. 
A Shigaraki Kogen Railway (SKR) train and a West Japan Railway Company (JR West) train collided head-on, killing 42 people and injuring 614 others. The Onotani Signal Station (, Onotani Shingojo) was the only point on the single-track line where two trains can safely pass, but the JR West train had already gone past that signal station, as it was given a green signal despite the approaching SKR train. 
