Posted on 11/05/2015 5:05:33 PM PST by tcrlaf
A passenger train collided with a heavy-duty lorry at a railway crossing in northern Bavaria late on Thursday killing at least one person and injuring several others, German media reported.
The train was carrying around 50 people when it rammed into a lorry near Freihung, northeast of Nuremberg late on Thursday evening, several news websites reported.
"It hurtled at 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) without breaking into the truck,"
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
The Reuters article doesn't say it, but the truck was carrying a US Army Truck on a flatbed. Also, various other res are reporting "Numerous" dead.
Happened a couple of hours ago. this is the first English-language article I've seen about it.
Do trains routinely try to burglarize other vehicles in Bavaria?
“It hurtled at 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) without breaking into the truck,”
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without BRAKING (don’t they have editors?)
From a German paper, run through Google translate, and then with the second paragraph edited by me:
On a busy railroad crossing in the Bavarian Freihung in Amberg-Sulzbach district there has been a train crash in which a regional express train rammed a heavy transporter of the American military. Several people are dead and at least thirty people have been injured, some seriously, as the news portal “Oberpfalz.net” reported. Several people - including the drivers - are still missing. To date, a body was recovered from the wreckage.
The police assume that about 50 people in the train which came from Nuremberg on its way to Weiden. The police think that there may have been two people in the truck, but they have not been recovered. The situation was very confusing, said a police spokesman. The truck, remained lying on the tracks and was then hit by a train, it said. In the collision both vehicles caught fire and had the driver’s cab of the van was demolished and dragged several hundred yards. Whether, as initially reported, there was an explosion, is still unclear.
They are reporting now that the truck driver was Romanian. He was killed, the other guy in the truck was only slightly injured (no other info on him.) Three people were taken to local hospitals by helicopter, 35 ambulances transferred those not as severely injured.
I added Germany to the topics.
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