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The 2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision occurred on 29 January 2011, when a freight train and a passenger train collided near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line. The passenger train derailed in the collision. Ten people were killed and 43 people were injured, some of them critically. Initial reports of 33 injured persons〔 were later corrected to 43 (18 critical, 25 non-critical). Around 100 rescue workers were at the collision site, which is about west of Berlin. ==Accident== The local passenger train with about 45 to 50 passengers on board was on a single track at a speed of approximately , where it collided head-on in very foggy conditions with the freight train, which had a speed of about .〔 Both trains had reduced their speeds prior to impact – while the freight train slowed only marginally to the emergency brake of the passenger train allowed it to slow down from .〔 The impact derailed the passenger train, which fell on its side next to the track. The front part of the passenger train was crushed.〔 The freight train ran on for another before coming to a halt. Subsequent investigations showed that the freight train had most likely passed a red signal (as well as the additional distant signal requiring it to slow down and prepare to stop).〔 The track had been planned to be equipped with the PZB automatic train protection system for years; however at the time of the accident it still used only visual signals.〔(Spiegel Online: Bahn und Ministerium wussten seit Jahren von Gefahren der Strecke )〕 When the freight train passed the switch (which was already set for the passenger train) the train director in the interlocking box at Hordorf was alerted〔Hordorf is a mechanical interlocking and the switch bar will rattle on each wheel kicking the closed switch (picture of the interlocking box Hordorf with main signal A in front )〕 – he testified that he had radioed an instruction to stop via Zugbahnfunk but got no response until after the collision (which occurred only seconds later). Since many people were severely injured, it was considered likely that the death toll could rise in the immediate aftermath of the incident.〔 The nine killed passengers had lived in the Harz region; the killed driver of the passenger train came from Mecklenburg.〔http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/nach-dem-zugunglueck-in-sachsen-anhalt-alle-todesopfer-identifiziert-1.1053940〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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