In a train accident on the bridge over the Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark came on Wednesday morning, six people were killed. The Danish rail company, DSB, confirmed to the German press Agency. The police of the Region of Funen, also confirmed that 16 people had been injured. At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, the police spokesman said that 14 people were slightly and two severely injured.
experts examined already on Wednesday morning the ill, and the first guesses made after the cause of the accident. Bo Haaning by the competent accident Commission said, according to the Danish news Agency Ritzau, an empty Truck trailer was turned over on Wednesday morning, probably, or from the freight train down been blown. He had rammed the oncoming Express train on either the front or the side. “You can see that there is a trailer, the fallen is, or from the freight train and the Intercity train was blown over,” said Haaning. For more details about the cause of the accident was not there but still.
131 passengers and three crew members were on Board
The DSB, according to the 131 passengers and three crew members were on Board. To the cause of the disaster, the railway company did not comment initially. On images, it is possible to see that it was a train, the beer was loaded with boxes. The lateral Plane of several wagons was torn open. A spokesman for the German rail Scandinavia, belonged to the the freight train, confirmed on Wednesday morning that it was a train with a delivery of Beer, the brewery Carlsberg.
The Deutsche Bahn wants to support the local authorities in the investigation. A group spokesman said on Wednesday in Berlin. “We are very concerned about the tragic train accident,” he added. “Our thoughts are with the Victims and the families.” To the cause of the accident, the train did not want to comment and referred to the competent authorities.
graphic: Böttcher/Tsp
The accident is likely to be due to a concatenation of unfortunate circumstances: According to Reports of the newspaper “policies” amounted to the wind speed of 20.9 m/sec, as the train went on the bridge. From a speed of 21 m/sec. the driver gets a warning and has to reduce speed from 120 to 80 km/h. This was not due to the scarce amount of undershoot of the limit value on Wednesday morning but the case.
In the case of the Transport company, DB Cargo, is currently undergoing a crisis meeting. The company, which transports, for years, drinks between Carlsberg brewery in Fredericia, and the Region of Zealand, took the responsible employees from the skiing, to a possible technical failure to educate.
The passenger train in the direction of Copenhagen, had been taken there by 7: 30 from a subject and had hard brakes. It was the roof parts of an oncoming freight train, reported by Danish media. The components of the freight train would have hit the oncoming passenger train, this one had sharp brakes. The spokesman of Deutsche Bahn Scandinavia told the newspaper “Ekstrabladet”, the train would have had permission to pass, in spite of the difficult wind conditions on the bridge. Because of the strong gusts of cars in the night from Tuesday were not allowed to go to Wednesday on the 6.6 km-long bridge. Since the West bridge, traffic on the Railways, but it is significantly lower than the Eastern bridge, on the car traffic runs were tracks on Wednesday morning to pass the bridge, said Kim Agersø Nielsen, the technical head of the bridge society, “Sund og Bælt” in front of “Ekstrabladet”.
The bridge is 18 kilometers long.
The 18-Kilometer-long bridge across the Great Belt and the öresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden were closed due to strong wind for the car traffic. On Wednesday afternoon the bridge opened for automobile traffic in both directions, however, with a speed limit of 50 km/h. The Danish transport Agency warned of long waiting times and queues. The train service remains throughout the Wednesday on locked.
eye witnesses reported to the newspaper “policies”, that the train began first to tremble, then flew glass shards and ceiling panels came loose. The Danish police care for Survivors of the disaster, a crisis center in Nyborg, the last Stop before the bridge on the island of Fyn.
Previously, had led a violent Wind, in large Parts of Scandinavia to power outages and traffic delays. Also, the ferry service was affected by the storm. In Sweden on Wednesday morning because of fallen trees, more than 100,000 households were without electricity.
The Danish government has, meanwhile, call the crisis readiness. In addition to the accident on the Great Belt bridge in both South Denmark is for large parts of the Islands of Lolland and Falster, in the South Funen archipelago and the little Belt between Jutland and Funen has been issued a storm surge warning. “In connection with these two incidents -the wreck of a train and the increased water-level – has called in the National Operational staff, the willingness of authorities to a Meeting and and we have gone to operation readiness, in order to control the Situation in the short and in the long term,” said the chief of staff to Per Jensen of the newspaper “policies”.
The Danish Queen Margrethe II. reacted with great sadness at the serious railway accident. It will touch you deeply, they stated on the website of the Royal house. “My thoughts and deepest sympathy go to the bereaved and their families, as well as to the injured.”
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the bridge over The great belt connects the Danish Islands of Funen and Zealand (Sjælland) and is one of the most important transport routes in Denmark. On Zealand and Copenhagen. Many travelers from Germany use the bridge, if you drive the car in the Danish capital, or in the direction of Sweden. (with dpa)
