 On 24 February 1951 11 people were killed when a tourist bus and a train collided.On 1 June 1952 nine people were killed and seventeen injured when a bus carrying more than 30 members of a Church of Christ social group was run into by an electric train at the Boronia Road level crossing in Boronia.On 13 April 1952 a woman was killed and seven persons were seriously injured when two passenger trains collided.