As of: March 25, 2024, 8:09 a.m
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Yesterday there was an accident during tree felling work between Starnberg and Tutzing near the town of Pöcking.
The route was closed for hours.
+++ Update from March 22nd, 4:30 p.m. +++
The situation was also tricky because the tree had pushed the overhead line onto the train and it was therefore live.
Pöcking's fire brigade commander Josef Mörtl reported to the Starnberger Merkur that he first had to convince the railway emergency manager at the scene to ground the train.
“Only then can we get on the train.
We didn’t want to stand by in case there was an emergency inside,” said Mörtl.
Finally, the emergency manager on one side and the fire department on the other grounded the train - to put it simply, using a rod between the overhead line and the track.
This is necessary in order to extinguish any residual voltage from the switched-off overhead line that may exist in the area surrounding the train.
And thus exclude life-threatening electric shocks for emergency services.
What further irritated fire department commander Mörtl: “We were only alerted very late.” About an hour after the accident.
The district fire inspection therefore contacted the railway to find out possible reasons.
When asked by Merkur, a railway spokeswoman only wrote in general terms: “The alarm was raised after the arrival of the DB emergency manager, who examined the situation on site in detail and took all the necessary steps.”
The presence of the firefighters – including those from Tutzing – was to prove important.
They provided the passengers with drinks that the train had ordered from a nearby market - and with information about what to do next.
“The train driver’s announcements didn’t get through to the back,” reported Mörtl.
“People sat on the train for two hours without any information.” Confronted with this, the railway spokeswoman writes: “We were not aware of any technical problems with the vehicle beforehand or had not been reported.”
Original article
Pöcking - The section between Starnberg and Tutzing was closed for hours yesterday on Thursday (March 21st) from around 2 p.m.
The reason was a beech tree that fell into the track area during tree felling work and hit the overhead line and a passing train, reports the Munich Federal Police.
The regional train was on the way from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Munich, and the accident happened near the town of Pöcking.
A copper beech tree fell onto the tracks and the overhead line - an approaching train collided with the tree
On-site investigations revealed that a 64-year-old was carrying out tree felling work in a forest adjacent to the tracks.
Part of the beech tree fell onto both tracks, the other part onto the overhead line.
The driver of the train noticed that the overhead line was shaking before the collision and therefore initiated emergency braking.
However, this could not prevent a collision with the tree.
The route between Starnberg and Tutzing was closed for hours due to the accident.
© Federal Police Munich/Canva Collage
The train suffered damage to both pantographs as a result of the collision and was no longer ready to run.
It had to be pulled to Starnberg train station, where the passengers could finally get off.
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The travelers remained largely uninjured
There were around 250 passengers on the train involved in the accident: due to the stressful situation, one had to be taken to the Starnberg Clinic for further clarification with a suspected heart attack.
A female passenger suffered a circulatory collapse on the train.
After a short initial treatment on site by paramedics present, the traveler recovered and did not require any further medical care.
The regional train collided with the felled tree.
© Federal Police Munich
As a result of the incident, the section between the Starnberg and Tutzing train stations was completely closed to train traffic from 2:08 p.m. to 6:40 p.m.
From 6:40 p.m. the Starnberg-Tutzing track was open again.
The opposite track remained closed until 9:58 p.m. for the duration of the repair work.
A replacement rail service was set up between Starnberg and Tutzing by DB AG.
The amount of damage is provisionally estimated at around 35,000 euros.
The federal police are investigating the 64-year-old for dangerous interference with rail traffic.
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