BERLIN - Slaughter on the tracks at night in Germany. Ten people were killed and forty injured in collision between two trains, a regional express with 50 passengers and a freight train. Place the terrible accident is the fraction of Hordorf, near the town of Oschersleben, in the east German Land of Saxony-Anhalt.
This is the worst train accident occurred in Germany for several years: namely from 2006, since when the monorail Transrapid magnetic levitation, a prototype high speed, derailed by the experimental circuit overhead. We then counted 23 dead. The time now is 10:43 wounded. The cause of the accident is not yet certain, but the governor of the state, Wolfgang Boehmer (CDU, which is the party of Chancellor Merkel Angrla), who rushed to the scene of the tragedy, spoke of possible human error: A stop sign was not respected one of the two trains.
IMAGES The tragic accident in East Germany took place yesterday evening after 22.15. The regional express train, the Harz Elbe-Express, a motor car with trailer truck, traveling from Magdeburg, the old, picturesque capital of Saxony-Anhalt, in Halberstadt, a picturesque town in the hilly and mountainous Harz region, known as a tourist destination and its typical sausages.
About 50 people were aboard the passenger train, traveling at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. All the line between Magdeburg and Halberstadt unfortunately is still single-track railway lines as well as some other secondary in the former East Germany. In bad weather, with heavy fog and the fields covered with snow, the driver of the Harz-Elbe-Express apparently has not seen time in the heavy freight train on the same track, ran to eighty hour meeting.
The impact was violent: the small passenger train was thrown off the tracks, derailed and the cars were crushed on impact with the ground. The automatic signals on the locomotive gave the alarm, but the rescuers, the thick fog, wind and snow, it was not easy to reach the scene of the accident.
What's worse, the bad weather conditions prevented the fleet of helicopters available to rescue Germany to take action. The fog was so thick that this morning it was still necessary, the use of reflectors. "Arriving at the place we saw terrible scenes," say the rescuers: crumpled cars, the poor from the impact made unrecognizable corpses, screaming wounded begging for help.
"Unfortunately, everything indicates that the final outcome of the tragedy is set to worsen," said the chief of police of Saxony-Anhalt, FrankKuessner: there are fears for the lives of many of the wounded, who are in serious conditions or desperate. Nothing is known of the causes of serious accident: the Federal Police and Kripa, ie the police criminal investigation and have taken the lead in investigating each direction, from human to technical problem.
The governor Boehmer, however, as mentioned above, has spoken of likely human error. According to some online sources reported by Bild, also the site of the accident were being carried out repair or maintenance of tracks. The disaster in Saxony-Anhalt is inevitably destined to exacerbate controversy, criticism and discontent with the problems and computer crashes, by the harsh winter, but not limited to, the German Railways (DB, Deutsche Bahn) are facing.
Serious delays, even on long distance and high-speed services, but no casualties and little accidents with serious consequences on the punctuality of the links have become everyday reality. The budget cuts imposed by the rigor of the DB - it is theoretically a public company, but all shares are owned by the government to launch on the stock market, and then privatization have long been postponed pending an improvement in the economy international - are felt so heavy.
So much so that the major print and online media now speak of a crisis of a symbol of Germany, that makes travel on the railway trains run on time and with modern, superfast trains. In recent times, including delays, computer crashes and poor condition of the tracks of many lines, but not limited to secondary, many commentators appeared here in Germany that the railways are no longer up to the country, its technological, industrial and export and reliability of its services.
Among the high prestige of the national airline, Lufthansa, and the recent bad reputation of Deutsche Bahn, run by differences in light-years. Transport Minister Merkel government, the Bavarian Christian Social Peter Ramsauer, promised improvements, but the ongoing crisis in the railways is becoming a political and social unrest in the country-locomotive in Europe.
The most serious incident ever hit Deutsche Bahn in 1998, and deals with its high speed, the flagship company and a symbol of "Made in Germany: near Eschede, Lower Saxony (West), an ice that is, a high-speed train service between Monaco and Hamburg derailed by a technical error in the trading system and crashed into a bridge pylon, causing collapse.
In the scary impact 101 people died then. 
This is the worst train accident occurred in Germany for several years: namely from 2006, since when the monorail Transrapid magnetic levitation, a prototype high speed, derailed by the experimental circuit overhead. We then counted 23 dead. The time now is 10:43 wounded. The cause of the accident is not yet certain, but the governor of the state, Wolfgang Boehmer (CDU, which is the party of Chancellor Merkel Angrla), who rushed to the scene of the tragedy, spoke of possible human error: A stop sign was not respected one of the two trains.
IMAGES The tragic accident in East Germany took place yesterday evening after 22.15. The regional express train, the Harz Elbe-Express, a motor car with trailer truck, traveling from Magdeburg, the old, picturesque capital of Saxony-Anhalt, in Halberstadt, a picturesque town in the hilly and mountainous Harz region, known as a tourist destination and its typical sausages.
About 50 people were aboard the passenger train, traveling at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. All the line between Magdeburg and Halberstadt unfortunately is still single-track railway lines as well as some other secondary in the former East Germany. In bad weather, with heavy fog and the fields covered with snow, the driver of the Harz-Elbe-Express apparently has not seen time in the heavy freight train on the same track, ran to eighty hour meeting.
The impact was violent: the small passenger train was thrown off the tracks, derailed and the cars were crushed on impact with the ground. The automatic signals on the locomotive gave the alarm, but the rescuers, the thick fog, wind and snow, it was not easy to reach the scene of the accident.
What's worse, the bad weather conditions prevented the fleet of helicopters available to rescue Germany to take action. The fog was so thick that this morning it was still necessary, the use of reflectors. "Arriving at the place we saw terrible scenes," say the rescuers: crumpled cars, the poor from the impact made unrecognizable corpses, screaming wounded begging for help.
"Unfortunately, everything indicates that the final outcome of the tragedy is set to worsen," said the chief of police of Saxony-Anhalt, FrankKuessner: there are fears for the lives of many of the wounded, who are in serious conditions or desperate. Nothing is known of the causes of serious accident: the Federal Police and Kripa, ie the police criminal investigation and have taken the lead in investigating each direction, from human to technical problem.
The governor Boehmer, however, as mentioned above, has spoken of likely human error. According to some online sources reported by Bild, also the site of the accident were being carried out repair or maintenance of tracks. The disaster in Saxony-Anhalt is inevitably destined to exacerbate controversy, criticism and discontent with the problems and computer crashes, by the harsh winter, but not limited to, the German Railways (DB, Deutsche Bahn) are facing.
Serious delays, even on long distance and high-speed services, but no casualties and little accidents with serious consequences on the punctuality of the links have become everyday reality. The budget cuts imposed by the rigor of the DB - it is theoretically a public company, but all shares are owned by the government to launch on the stock market, and then privatization have long been postponed pending an improvement in the economy international - are felt so heavy.
So much so that the major print and online media now speak of a crisis of a symbol of Germany, that makes travel on the railway trains run on time and with modern, superfast trains. In recent times, including delays, computer crashes and poor condition of the tracks of many lines, but not limited to secondary, many commentators appeared here in Germany that the railways are no longer up to the country, its technological, industrial and export and reliability of its services.
Among the high prestige of the national airline, Lufthansa, and the recent bad reputation of Deutsche Bahn, run by differences in light-years. Transport Minister Merkel government, the Bavarian Christian Social Peter Ramsauer, promised improvements, but the ongoing crisis in the railways is becoming a political and social unrest in the country-locomotive in Europe.
The most serious incident ever hit Deutsche Bahn in 1998, and deals with its high speed, the flagship company and a symbol of "Made in Germany: near Eschede, Lower Saxony (West), an ice that is, a high-speed train service between Monaco and Hamburg derailed by a technical error in the trading system and crashed into a bridge pylon, causing collapse.
In the scary impact 101 people died then.
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