Latest news with #train driver
Reuters
04-08-2025
- Reuters
One person killed after bus collides with train in Russia's Leningrad region
Aug 4 (Reuters) - One person was killed and 11 others injured when a bus collided with a freight train in Russia's Leningrad region, the regional railway administration said on Monday. "The driver of the ... bus entered the crossing in front of an approaching freight train," the railway administration of the Leningrad region, in northwest Russia, said on the Telegram messaging app. "The train driver applied emergency braking, but the distance was too short to prevent a collision." The railways administration said it was a regular service bus, but Russian state news agency RIA cited the local prosecutor's office as saying it was a tourist bus. (This story has been corrected after railway administration said that one person was killed, not two, and 11 were injured, not 10, in the headline and paragraph 1)
New York Times
28-07-2025
- New York Times
Heavy Rain Likely Caused Deadly German Train Derailment, Investigators Say
German investigators said Monday that a train derailment over the weekend that killed three people and injured 41 others was the result of a mudslide caused by heavy rains. 'The water caused a landslide on the embankment near the tracks, which in turn probably caused the derailment,' the police in Ulm, where the train was heading on Sunday evening when it went off the rails, said in a statement. The train driver, another member of the crew and a passenger were killed in the crash near Riedlingen, a small town roughly 30 miles north of Lake Constance in southern Germany. The police said that many of the injured were passengers. Videos of the scene that appeared on television networks showed several of the train's cars lying on their sides, bunched together next to the tracks. The rear car was still standing upright after the accident, but had also come off the tracks. The tracks were visibly bent several yards behind where the train came to a stop, the news footage showed. A large amount of mud was visible on several parts of the track. Rescue workers worked into the night trying to care for the wounded and transport them to surrounding hospitals. Half a dozen emergency helicopters helped in the evacuation, news reports said. The accident was one of the most deadly rail crashes in Germany since 2022, when a regional train derailed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in southern Bavaria, killing five. In that case faulty tracks were deemed to be the cause.
The Independent
28-07-2025
- The Independent
Train derailment that killed 3 in Germany apparently was caused by landslide
Investigators believe a landslide, brought on by heavy rainfall, likely caused a regional train to derail in southern Germany, killing three people and injuring 41 more. More than 100 people were aboard the Deutsche Bahn train when at least two carriages derailed Sunday evening in a forested area near Riedlingen, about 158 kilometers (98 miles) west of Munich. The train's driver, another employee and a passenger were killed, police said early Monday. Some of the 41 injured were seriously hurt. Police said the downpours in the area caused a sewage shaft to overflow, likely triggering the landslide of an embankment where the derailment occurred. There was no evidence of an external influence that could have caused the derailment, police said.
