Awful looking train crash in Germany!

[Deleted User X18H]

Don't look at all good.

 

[Dirk Lehmann's Python]

I think we all know how the replies to this go...

 

[atomised]

Looks like.several fatalities. Head on collision

 

[studio150]

Now reporting several deaths and serious injuries not looking good.

 

[Hillian1]

Looks like.several fatalities. Head on collision

Single track line too, not good.

I'm assuming/hoping our [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] is nowhere near this?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Shocking, hope that everyone injured pulls through and the dead RIP.

 

[Yoda]

I think we all know how the replies to this go...

I think if anyone does it's pretty bad taste.

 

[Notters]

I think we all know how the replies to this go...

Hopefully no-one is quite that stupid.

 

[daveinprague]

You have to wonder how a head on collision on a single track could happen in this day and age...particularly somewhere like Germany.
RIP the victims, and hope for the injured, some will possibly not make it.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

That's horrendous, the only silver lining (if it even classifies as one) is that the death toll so far is pretty low. Horrible.

 

[GT49er]

Hopefully no-one is quite that stupid.

Took me a while to work out what he meant by 'we all know how the replies to this go...' but I've got it now - and yes, hope nobody goes there. Quite inappropriate.

Sympathy for all the victims.

 

[atfc village]

8 deceased ,sad news.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Single track line too, not good.

I'm assuming/hoping our [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] is nowhere near this?

Thanks for your concern but I'm okay thanks. It's a dark day in Deutschland though. RIP

 

[theboybilly]

Memories of the Cowden tragedy in the 1990s (again on a single-line). Railway safety technology has come on in leaps and bounds since then so it is really hard to understand how this could happen today. RIP to those who lost their lives

 

[Vicar!]

Right at the end of Karnival. I wonder if alcohol could be a related factor.

 

[Albion my Albion]

At about 6.48 local time, two trains were involved in a head-on crash on a single track between Rosenheim and Holkirchen, 40 miles south-east of Munich

Nine people confirmed dead
Almost all of the 150 passengers thought to have been hurt
40 in serious condition
Two people are said to be missing
Both drivers and train guards are said to be among the dead
The trains were operated by Meridian, the track by Deutsche Bahn. An automatic breaking system should have been in place
Both trains were derailed and are wedged into one another
Scene of crash was 'horrifying', German transport minister said