US EditionTwo Trains Collide in Slovakia, Injuries Reported
- On Nov 9, two trains crashed in the corridor between Bratislava, Slovakia, and Pezinok, Slovakia, with authorities reporting no deaths.
- Police preliminarily reported no derailment or head-on collision as one train hit the back of the other, and the cause remains under investigation.
- Officials at the scene reported dozens were lightly injured and 11 people were taken to the hospital, while a passenger cited by Aktuality.sk described the crash as a loud `bang`.
- The crash was Slovakia's second in the past month, following an Oct 13 collision in eastern Slovakia that injured 91 people.
- State-Run passenger carrier ZSSK said it is cooperating with railway infrastructure operator ZSR, police and emergency services as train services face significant delays and possible closures.
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Train collision in Slovakia leaves 13 hospitalized as prime minister says human error likely cause
Thirteen people remain hospitalized after a train collision in Slovakia. Officials say an express train hit the back of a passenger train near Pezinok on Sunday evening.
A total of 79 people have been injured, three of them seriously, in the collision between two trains that took place in Slovakia on Sunday night, according to the Ministry of Health on Monday. The lives of two of the wounded are in danger. The collision occurred 20 kilometres from Bratislava between two passenger trains that were heading for the Slovak capital. About 800 people, mostly students, were traveling in the two convoys.
Dozens of people were injured in a train crash in Slovakia on Sunday when one train crashed into another from behind, the second fatal train accident in four weeks, raising safety concerns in the country.
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