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Serious train accident at Dalfsen
Update 11:00: Also the Safety confirms that a death has occurred. Two people were taken to a hospital.
It is not known how they are ready. Four others were slightly injured and did not need to be transported to a hospital. Probably all occupants right now.
Update 10:50 pm: The emergency services are busy with rescue and salvage in the pastures where the train is tilted. Some passengers have been collected in a house near the track. The municipality Dalfsen cares about 12:00 pm in the town hall a press conference about the train accident.
Update 10:20 pm: Eddy van den Ham and his wife Ria run Vechtdalcamping the Tolhuis in Dalfsen. Right next to the place where the accident occurred. Metro spoke with them. "It's one big havoc," said Eddy Ham. "It sounded like an overturned truck carrying container on the highway scraped. But ten times heavier. It was a very strange noise. We saw a large cloud of dust and debris everywhere then. "
Of the platform where the train crashed is nothing left, says Van den Ham. "The platform man could stand on time, the driver of the train is unfortunately deceased. His cabin is nothing left. "The boom crawler passed a supervised transition. The man would have waited for the passing of the train. Then he began the crossing. "This is slow and can take up to 10 minutes. He has probably not been realized that the train in the opposite direction there are still to come. "
It is a blessing in disguise that's not an hour before the accident happened, according to Van den Ham. "Then it was packed happened during rush hour. Then the drama would have been incalculable. "
Update 10:00: Mayor Nuts Dalfsen at the NOS: "There is one dead and several wounded turns to attack them, one wounded There were not many people on the train.."
In Dalfsen Tuesday morning around 9 pm a train derailed. The passenger train was on the crossing when Lageveld collided on a platform. Train carriages lie on their side in the pasture.
The accident happened on the railway Zwolle - Emmen. There are trains from Arriva. It is still unclear how many victims there are cases.
The driver would not have survived the accident. Reported that the regional broadcaster RTV Oost. The Safety and carrier Arriva could not confirm the death.
Source: https://www.metronieuws.nl/ D. Aachen Photo: Metro