According to preliminary findings, the cause of Tuesday’s train crash in Bavaria , which killed at least 10 people, was human error – announced in the evening the German agency dpa, citing a reliable source.
The head-on collision of two commuter trains came about. Hour. 6.45 on the single-track electrified line between situated on the south-east of Munich towns of Holzkirchen and Rosenheim. Both wagons carrying dug into each other, and one of the warehouses fell out of the rails. The accident site is located on a bend of the track, near the town of Bad Aibling. 
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According to the German agency dpa, the cause of the accident was human error.
at least 10 of the victims
in the crash killed at least 10 people, including both drivers and two conductors. 18 people were badly injured and 63 lighter. One person is still considered missing. The rescue work was complicated by difficult accessibility of the area, as the site of collision path runs through the wooded edge of the slope, sloping toward saith Mangfall.
As it shows, the number of victims could be higher were it not that the accident occurred in during the school holidays.
According to the railway administration the maximum permitted speed of trains on this stretch is 100 km / h. The collision involved Meridian trains, passenger support communication between Munich and Rosenheim. The owner of Meridian is the French railway company Transdev.
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Merkel thanked services
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her sympathy to the families of victims of fatal and underlined that thoughts are with the wounded in the crash. She thanked the emergency services and expressed its conviction that the cause of the collision of trains will be explained.
Transport Minister German Alexander Dobrindt told reporters that it is not known yet, why you did not work installed on this route automatic safety system, which should stop aiming to a train.
According to a representative of the German railways (Deutsche Bahn) system is controlled there just a week ago and there were no irregularities.
it was the most tragic catastrophe station in Germany from January 2011 year, when the suburban train collision with a freight in Saxony-Anhalt killed 10 people. In Bavaria, more deaths – 41 – engulfed disaster in 1975, when a single-track line in Warngau south of Munich, collided head-on two fast trains.
Author: mart // plw / PAP
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