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BRB train hits the car head-on: family with baby was in the vehicle - rescue helicopter in action

2020-09-09T09:15:39.690Z


A BRB train hit a car on the Holzkirchen-Schaftlach line at the Lochham level crossing. The rescue workers are on site. The mission continues.


A BRB train hit a car on the Holzkirchen-Schaftlach line at the Lochham level crossing.

The rescue workers are on site.

The mission continues.

  • A major operation has been running since around 12.40 p.m. on the BRB route Holzkirchen-Schaftlach near Lochham.

  • According to the first reports, a train hit a car.

    There are injured.

  • The railway line is closed.

Update, 7:31 p.m.:

The Holzkirchen police have now given more details about the dramatic collision at the level crossing near Lochham.

Accordingly, the driver is a

29-year-old man from Baden-Württemberg

who was

driving

his Peugeot 308 down the Lochham road from Lochham in the direction of Thann.

A

22-year-old woman

sat in the passenger

seat and his 4-month-old son in the back seat

.

The 22-year-old passenger was initially trapped in the vehicle and was rescued from the car by the fire brigade.

Thann / Bavaria: After a dramatic clash - police with further details

The three inmates of the Peugeot were all

seriously injured in hospitals

in Miesbach and Munich.

The 46 people from the train were all unharmed.

The

inmates were evacuated

and taken by bus to the Holzkirchen train station, the Holzkirchen police said.

The

29-year-old Opel driver is now under criminal investigation

.

Update, 5.30 p.m.:

The accident is particularly tragic due to the fact that the municipality of Warngau has been wrestling with Deutsche Bahn for years about a barrier system for this and four other level crossings on the route.

Thann alone has had several crashes in recent years.

There were even two fatalities.

Again and again serious accidents at the barrier-free level crossing near Thann

Update, 5 p.m.:

Holzkirchen's fire brigade commander Ludwig Würmseer reports on the operation at the level crossing: When the Holzkirchen and Warngau fire brigades arrived at the scene of the accident with a total of 35 men, they opened the passenger side of the wreck with rescue scissors and spreader in order to close the two parents and their child as gently as possible to free.

Then the rescue service took over the first aid of the injured and prepared their transport with two helicopters to the hospital.

Update, 4.44 p.m

.: The BRB has released the route again.

However, there will be delays in the entire BRB network today and probably the whole of Wednesday due to the severely damaged level crossing at the scene of the accident.

BRB route free again - long delays due to defective level crossing

We also have more information about the operation itself: Among other things, the Warngau and Holzkirchen fire departments were on duty.

Two rescue helicopters also landed.

Nothing is known about the health of the family with a baby in the accident car.

There were 46 passengers in the train involved in the accident.

They were evacuated by the fire brigade and were then able to travel on with the buses provided.

BRB captures the car from the front: family injured with baby - mission ongoing

Update, 2:33 p.m.:

According to information from the BR, there are injured.

Accordingly, there was a couple with their baby in the car.

All three are injured, but the parents are both apparently responsive.

BRB route closed - large-scale operation is ongoing - train detects cars

Update, 2 p.m.:

There is now a current photo of the scene of the accident.

It shows a wrecked car next to the track.

Since the small building in the background is also badly damaged, it can be assumed that the car was thrown into the concrete wall after the collision with the train.

Information on injured persons and the cause of the accident is still not available.

The Holzkirchen police station has announced a press report for the afternoon.

She doesn't want to make any statements beforehand.

Update, 1:33 p.m.:

After the serious accident at Lochham (municipality of Holzkirchen) in which a train was detected by a car according to initial information, the railway line between Schaftlach and Holzkirchen is closed.

Replacement traffic will be set up by the BRB.

Oberland: Holzkirchen- Schaftlach


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closure The railway line between Schaftlach and Holzkirchen is currently closed.


Replacement traffic is set up.


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- BRB - Oberland (@brb_oberland) September 8, 2020

First report, 1:20 p.m .: Lochham

- On Tuesday around 12:40 p.m. at the level crossing near Lochham, a car was caught by a train.

Information on the cause of the accident and injuries is not yet available.

We will publish them here as soon as we receive them.

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