https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Three passengers in a van were killed after their vehicle was hit by an oncoming freight train at a railway crossing in central Germany on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170419/train-crash-with-car-kills-three-in-thuringia Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:32:54 +0200 train-crash-with-car-kills-three-in-thuringia Frankfurt area S-Bahn transit was disrupted on Friday for thousands of travelers after an empty high-speed train hit a railway buffer stop, causing it to derail. https://www.thelocal.de/20170217/in-pics-empty-high-speed-train-in-frankfurt-derails-in-dramatic-crash Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:44:13 +0100 in-pics-empty-high-speed-train-in-frankfurt-derails-in-dramatic-crash A German rail dispatcher who admitted that his negligence caused a train crash that killed 12 people has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. https://www.thelocal.de/20161205/rail-worker-jailed-over-train-crash Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:30:02 +0100 rail-worker-jailed-over-train-crash A German rail dispatcher admitted at the start of his trial Thursday that his negligence caused a train crash that killed 12 people as he was playing a mobile phone game while on duty. https://www.thelocal.de/20161110/german-rail-dispatcher-admits-guilt-in-fatal-train-crash Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:38:10 +0100 german-rail-dispatcher-admits-guilt-in-fatal-train-crash A new documentary based on confidential reports sheds light on what East German officials were hiding from their citizens after accidents: poor work safety, old infrastructure and lousy organization. https://www.thelocal.de/20160818/accidents-in-the-gdr-socialism-is-never-guilty Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:15:46 +0200 accidents-in-the-gdr-socialism-is-never-guilty German prosecutors said on Monday they had brought charges against a rail dispatcher accused of causing a train crash in February that killed 12 while playing a mobile phone game on duty. https://www.thelocal.de/20160718/game-playing-dispatcher-charged-in-deadly-munich-train-crash Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:19:28 +0200 game-playing-dispatcher-charged-in-deadly-munich-train-crash The death toll from a German train crash rose to 12 on Wednesday, a day after a rail dispatcher was arrested, accused of having been distracted by a mobile phone game shortly before the accident. https://www.thelocal.de/20160413/bavaria-train-crash-claims-12th-victim-2-months-on Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:22:38 +0200 bavaria-train-crash-claims-12th-victim-2-months-on Police have arrested the controller who was on duty at the time of a deadly train crash in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, that killed 11 people in February. https://www.thelocal.de/20160412/police-arrest-controller-over-bavaria-train-crash Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:32:20 +0200 police-arrest-controller-over-bavaria-train-crash A train crash which killed eleven people in southern Germany last week was the result of human error, said Bavarian state prosecutors on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160216/human-error-to-blame-for-bavaria-train-crash-prosecutors Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:03:29 +0100 human-error-to-blame-for-bavaria-train-crash-prosecutors The rail controller in Bad Aibling in southern Bavaria, where two trains collided on Tuesday, twice tried to stop the accident that killed eleven people. https://www.thelocal.de/20160212/controller-twice-tried-to-warn-trains-before-collision Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:32:11 +0100 controller-twice-tried-to-warn-trains-before-collision Police said on Thursday that a further casualty of Tuesday's horrific train crash south-east of Munich had succumbed to their wounds in hospital. https://www.thelocal.de/20160211/eleventh-victim-claimed-by-bavaria-train-crash Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:48:16 +0100 eleventh-victim-claimed-by-bavaria-train-crash Police said on Wednesday morning that they were not expecting to find any further victims of Tuesday's train crash southeast of Munich, denying reports of an eleventh body found. https://www.thelocal.de/20160210/eleventh-victim-confirmed-in-bavaria-train-crash Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:34:45 +0100 eleventh-victim-confirmed-in-bavaria-train-crash Check here for a quick overview of all the latest information on the train accident in Bad Aibling, Bavaria on Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.de/20160209/bavaria-train-crash-what-we-know-so-far Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:56:41 +0100 bavaria-train-crash-what-we-know-so-far Over 96 percent of Germany's rail network is fitted with the PZB system, which is supposed to prevent collisions – so how did Tuesday morning's full-frontal crash happen? https://www.thelocal.de/20160209/why-the-bavarian-train-crash-shouldnt-have-been-possible Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:32:15 +0100 why-the-bavarian-train-crash-shouldnt-have-been-possible A passenger train hit a US military truck that had got stuck on a crossing in Freihung, Bavaria on Thursday night, killing two people. https://www.thelocal.de/20151106/train-hits-us-military-transport-truck Fri, 06 Nov 2015 09:34:45 +0100 train-hits-us-military-transport-truck