May 27, 2012
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Train collision in northern Germany injures at least 16
A German passenger train lies wrecked next to freight cars after a collision in Peine on Thursday. A regional passenger train collided late on Wednesday night with a derailed freight train between Hannover and Braunschweig, leaving 16 people injured.
18 June 2010 / AP, BERLIN
A train crash in northern Germany has injured at least 16 people and caused several million eurosin damage, a police official said on Thursday.
A regional train’s engine and two passenger cars derailed after hitting a cargo train near Hannover. Two of the cars fell into the yards of people living next to the railway, police spokesman Paul-Gerhard Heppe said.
The collision late Wednesday left the regional train’s conductor severely injured, and 15 passengers less seriously hurt, he said.
The two trains crashed after the cargo train carrying 49 cars of gravel partly derailed for unknown reasons. The regional train coming from the opposite direction then hit the cargo train cars that had tipped onto its tracks. Heppe said that the accident could have been a lot worse. Only 65 people were traveling with the train shortly before midnight and the passenger car that fell into the nearby yards was empty.
The rail link between Hannover and Braunschweig will remain closed at least throughout the day, he said.
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