Passenger trains collide in Kritzendorf Austria (22/12/2017)

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[SandTEngineer]

I'm afraid its another one...
http://noe.orf.at/news/stories/2885684

Appologies but my German/English translation program is not perfect

Train accident in Kritzendorf: Several injured
In Kritzendorf (Tulln district), two passenger trains collided on Friday evening according to initial information from the forces. According to the fire department, the accident claimed several casualties. The first information was about 20 people.

The train accident is said to have occurred around 6 pm in the area of ​​the station, according to Franz Resperger, spokesman for the state fire brigade command, to noe.ORF.at. A rapid-transit railway and a passenger train are to be collided on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn for the time being unknown cause sideways. Two wagons are said to have come to rest, they should be tilted according to Resperger from the tracks. Another car had leaned to the side.

At first, passengers were trapped in overturned wagons but not trapped, Resperger continued. The fire department was busy freeing the passengers. According to initial information speak the forces of 20 injured, so Resperger. Two rescue helicopters and a large contingent of rescue workers and fire brigades are currently in place.

The ÖBB have since established a rail replacement service between St. Andrä-Wördern and Klosterneuburg-Weidling. The train route is currently closed, as long as the interruption is maintained, is not yet foreseeable, they say.

[ChrisB]

Indeed, interesting translation first sentence, third para!

[grahame]

A further report - in Scots English - from The Herald Scotland

Two passenger trains have collided near Vienna, injuring several people.

The trains, one of them regional and the other local, collided near the station in Kritzendorf, north of the Austrian capital, a little before 6pm (1700 GMT).

Two cars turned over and a third was leaning to one side.

The point of impact appeared to be the sides of both trains, which were travelling in the same direction and then derailed.

Infrastructure minister Norbert Hofer told the Austria Press Agency that four people were slightly hurt and another four were more seriously injured.

A rescue helicopter took one person to a Vienna hospital with head injuries.

Austrian media, citing emergency services, had earlier put the number of injured at between 15 and 20.

“We suspect that the cause is to be found in human error, not in a technical defect, but that will be verified in the coming days,” Mr Hofer said.

The trains were evacuated by shortly after 7.30pm local time.

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I've found as better Austrian source (kurier.at), though as it's still in German and largely duplicates the one above I'll extract a couple of bits.

Foto: APA/HERBERT P. OCZERET

The railway at Kritzendorf is twin track (and trains run on the left) with platform loops, and a Cityjet (new S-bahn) towards Vienna pulled out from the station and was struck by a double-deck regional express train passing through. It looks as though the carriages that overturned were part of the regional train. Despite the shouty headline in the Express ("Two trains travelling at FULL SPEED collide in Austria – multiple injuries" - detail unsupported by the following text) both trains were only travelling quite slowly.

It is suggested that the Cityjet driver started off past a signal at danger. Now where have we heard that before, not so far from here?