17.06.2010 Train crash in Germany

Sixteen people were injured when a passenger train collided with a derailed freight train in northern Germany. The accident happened around 01:30 p.m. Moscow time (21:30 GMT) near Peine, a town near Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony, on the line between Hanover and Braunschweig. A regional passenger train carrying more than 60 people collided slammed into three cars of a freight train, which had derailed, seriously injuring the train driver and wounding 15 others with minor injuries. Eight of the injured have been sent to a local hospital, while the rest of them were treated at the site. Police said the reason for the collision is still under investigation.

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[thecolafreaks]

Tolle dostos :D

[VogtlandDJ]

du bist doch krank!!!

[KartKing4ever]

I keep hearing that sound from the xbox dashboard...

[huskerbigred1]

how does a train car just...fly off the tracks like that? :P

[MrKaan98]

I'm from peine

[Attilaakiraly]

The locomotive has fell into someones garden and completely destroying a wooden doll house! Thank godness it happened at night and no child was in the doll house! And nice to hear there was only injury but no death!

Shit happens. :/