The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when a Thames Trains passenger train passed a signal at danger, colliding almost head-on with a First Great Western passenger train. With 31 people killed and 417 injured, it was one of the worst rail accidents in 20th-century British history.

West London is the western part of London, England, north of the River Thames, west of the City of London, and extending to the Greater London boundary.

October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 87 days remain until the end of the year.