Tag: Train accident
Several fatalities in train accident in Czech Republic
Status: 06.06.2024 07:26 a.m. At least four people were killed in the Czech Republic when a passenger train collided with a freight train. More than 20 passengers were injured. It…
Czech Republic: Dead and injured in train accident near Pardubice | News
Schweres Zugunglück in Tschechien: Beim Zusammenstoß eines Personen- und eines Güterzuges starben in der Nacht zu Donnerstag mindestens vier Menschen. Dutzende wurden verletzt, bestätigte Martin Kavka, Sprecher des Schienennetzbetreibers Sprava…
Manufacturing defects in sleepers were a contributing factor in train accident – Bavaria
According to new investigations, a specific manufacturing process and the associated subsequent material weakness in the railway sleepers is a major cause of the fatal train accident in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. This…
Two years after the train accident, there are still many questions – Bavaria
The images are still present for Elisabeth Koch today. “I still remember every minute. It has really stuck in my mind,” says the mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The CSU politician was…
Train accident in Reichertshausen – what is known so far
After a train accident on the route between Munich and Ingolstadt with seven injuries, the track closure between Munich and Ingolstadt has been lifted. Train traffic was possible again without…
Hazmat wagons plunged into the Yellowstone River
Status: 06/25/2023 11:01 a.m A train carrying dangerous goods crashed into the Yellowstone River in Montana. Several wagons with asphalt and sulfur are in the water, and the withdrawal of…
Accident in Dinslaken: train crashes into level crossing in car | Regional
Dinslaken (North Rhine-Westphalia) – Pieces of debris lie along the tracks, spread over dozens of meters. A regional train crashed into a car at the level crossing – a person…
Gert Loschütz’s novel “Viewing a Disaster”. Review. – Culture
Gert Loschütz works quietly, slowly, and with concentration. He consults files, searches for documents, reads old newspaper reports, quotes from dozens of his own notebooks. And so does his narrator…
Czech Republic: Difficult rescue work after a fatal train accident – panorama
After the heavy train collision with three dead in the Czech border area with Bavaria, the rescue work has begun. On Thursday, a crane arrived at the scene of the…