Germany
Chronology of railway disasters
Train travel is regarded as relatively safe. Serious accidents with dead and many injured as the former capital of Germany (the picture) and now in Bavaria are comparatively rare. Here is an Overview:
An Intercity train destroyed a road bridge in Eschede (file picture)
– August 2014: In Mannheim rams a freight train is a Eurocity with 250 passengers – two railroad cars fall around, 35 people are injured. The engine driver of the freight train had a Haltesignal overlooked.
– September 2012: An Intercity train derailed when Leaving the Stuttgart main train station. Eight people are injured. Already in July, was at the same place an IC from the tracks jumped. Cause each broken buffers on the wagons.
– April 2012: A train meets with Offenbach (Hessen) with a construction Crane train together. Three people are killed, 13 injured.
– January 2012: A regional train stop in North Friesland, in a herd of cattle and flips around. A passenger comes around the life.
– September 2011: debris crashes during heavy rains into the Track and makes a Intercity with about 800 people on Board at St. Goar in the Rhine valley derailing. 15 people are injured.
– January 2011: Ten people died when a commuter train at Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt with a freight train collides. A train driver had two danger signals run over.
– October 2009: a Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the historic Lößnitzgrundbahn in Saxony encounter two of the historic trains. 52 people are injured, four of them seriously.
– April 2008: An ICE rast South of Fulda (Hessen) in a flock of sheep and derailed in part – 73 injured.
– June 2003: At manufacturers in Baden-Württemberg come across two regional trains together. Six people die.
– February 2000: In a construction site of the railway station in Brühl, near Cologne derailed the night Express from Amsterdam to Basel in a Soft. Balance Sheet: Nine Dead, 149 Injured.
– June 1998: Following the rupture of a Radreifens clash in lower Saxony, capital of Germany, several carriages of an ICE at a speed of 200 against a road bridge. 101 people die.
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