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Crashed ICE near Eschede: 101 people died in the accident in 1998
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At least four people died in a serious train accident in Bavaria.
A regional express derailed on the way from Garmisch to Munich.
According to the police, around 30 people were injured, 15 of them were taken to hospitals.
The cause of the accident is unclear.
The fatal accident is the latest in a series of fatal rail accidents in Germany.
A chronology:
February 2022: Two S-Bahn trains collide head-on on a single-track route in
Schäftlarn near Munich
.
A passenger is killed and 18 people are injured.
May 2018:
Near Aichach
in Bavaria, a regional train runs unbraked into a stationary freight train.
Two people are killed and 14 injured.
February 2016: In
Bad Aibling
in Bavaria, twelve people die when two local trains crash into each other on a single-track line.
There are dozens injured.
A dispatcher must be in custody.
April 2012: A regional train collides with a construction crane train near
Offenbach
in Hesse.
Three people are killed and 13 injured.
January 2011: Ten people die when a local train collides with a freight train near
Oschersleben
in Saxony-Anhalt.
A train driver had run over two stop signals.
September 2003: A woman dies when two regional trains collide in Thuringia.
28 people are injured in the accident on a single-track line between
Bad Berka and Weimar
.
June 2003:
Two regional trains collide
near Schrozberg in Baden-Württemberg, killing six people.
A dispatcher is given a suspended sentence.
February 2000: The
night express from Amsterdam to Basel derailed at a switch in a construction site at the
Brühl train station near Cologne.
Record: nine dead, 149 injured.
June 1998: After a wheel tire broke, an ICE train derailed at a speed of 200 km/h in
Eschede
(Lower Saxony) and crashed on a road bridge.
101 people die.
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