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Germany - Nine Dead in Train Wreck
Other | Friday 19th February 2016 | Arash
Nine people have been killed in Germany and more than a hundred have been injured in Southern Germany when two trains collided head-on.
The accident happened near the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling, about 37 miles southwest of Munich.
Alexander Dobrindt, Germany’s Minister of Transport said that the two trains were travelling approximately about 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour when they collided and were ripped apart after hitting each other. Dobrindt stated that, “They did not slow down in the curve,” explaining that, “One train drilled into the other.”
Why the two trains were travelling on the same track or whether the crash was due to human or technical errors is still a mystery. Two of the three black boxes from the trains have been recovered from the wreck and will be analysed in the upcoming days.
This has been the worst accident in Germany since 2001 when another train accident occurred when a passenger train struck a freight train in Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt, killing 10 people. It is also the worst accident in Bavaria since 1975, when 41 people were killed when two express trains also collided head on.
