[D] ICE accident

[Andreas Umnus]

Here is the report.

But the headline means that there are 15 injured people.

[John Ashworth]

Andreas, from that photo it looks as if hit a lorry. Was it a level crossing accident? There's just been a level crossing accident in UK (here), fortunately at lower speed and with no deaths.

[Andreas Umnus]

Hi John,

I found another picture gallery of the accident and the notes under two pictures say that there was a street beneath the railway line. It was now railway crossing accident.

[picture 1]

and picture 2

I found just out that it seems to translate every text under all pictures. So I hope it it now clear what kind of accident it was.

The accident you have linked to is really heavy.

[Steve Appleton]

From what I can make out, it seems that there is an elevated road running parallel to the track at that point. A garbage truck, when trying to avoid another vehicle, ran off the road and slid down a dirt embankment onto the track.

[John Ashworth]

Reminds me of an accident in UK a few years back when a Land Rover went through a fence at the top of an embankment and landed up on the track in a cutting.