After a car collided with a regional train at an unguarded level crossing in the Rosenheim district, the police are looking for the driver of the car. He is said to have driven across the tracks at Wasserburg on Saturday evening despite the red light. The local train ran into the back of the car; According to police, the car was probably damaged on the left rear taillight. The train driver and the 28 passengers remained uninjured.
The driver continued his journey without paying any attention to the accident, as the Wasserburg am Inn police station reported. Traffic accident investigators are on the way to look for the driver, said department head Markus Steinmaßl on Monday. The allegations were of endangering rail traffic and hit-and-run. There have been several accidents at the level crossing in the past ten years, including a fatal one in 2018.