Bratoszewice

Bratoszewice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stryków, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Stryków, north-east of Zgierz, and north-east of the regional capital Łódź. It is located in Łęczyca Land.

History

It was a private town, administratively located in the Brzeziny County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

Level crossing crash

On 30 July 2012 at about 6:00am nine people were killed and one seriously injured after a train and a minibus collided at an unguarded railway level crossing in Bratoszewice. There were ten people in the minibus, mostly seasonal workers from Ukraine. Passengers on the train were uninjured.