most of The injured have bruises and cuts by flying glass. ,,There was a lot of panic. The people had fear in the eyes," says a woman who almost immediately after the accident was on the spot. They came from Groningen and was on the road for a day trip to Schiermonnikoog.
,,The occupants were afraid that the derailed train would topple over. But that is fortunately not happened.’" The woman was the occupant help pane to save out of the train.
Two of the wounded to a hospital, their condition is not life-threatening, reported the emergency services. A few tens of lichtgewonden in a nearby farm and barracks treated.
In the trains according to the passenger transport company Arriva 50 to 75 passengers. The engineer of the train remained unharmed. About the exact circumstances of the accident can be the case have nothing to say.
The melkauto came from a farmyard. The collision was according to the police place at a railroad crossing. The driver of the melkauto has remained unscathed.
The railway between Sauwerd and Warffum is probably until Saturday morning to shut down, reports the NS.
The Dutch Safety Board has investigators on the way sent to Winsum. They go exploratory investigation into the collision and subsequent derailment, the board has Friday reported.
Congress repealed
A conference on the future of public transport in North – and East-Netherlands, Friday afternoon in Zwolle would be held, is cancelled because of the accident. A large part of the conference participants is needed in Groningen to the consequences of the accident to deal with. That has a spokeswoman of the NS, let us know.
At the congress would rural and regional carriers and administrators to discuss how the public transport system in the north and east of the country in 2040 should look like. State secretary Sharon Dijksma of Infrastructure would be a jointly prepared ontwikkelagenda. When the conference is now being held, is yet to be decided.
accidents
The railroad crossing on the Voslaan is rather discredited. In 2014 came in two different accidents on the railroad two people to life.
Then arose a lot of criticism on the insecurity of the conscious level crossing. So had the Gerjon Kazemier Foundation, which stands for safe level crossings, a lawsuit filed against ProRail and the municipality of Winsum. That dispute was suspended after ProRail and Winsum last year had agreed that for local residents a noodweg would be constructed for a guarded transition.
In 1980, there was in Winsum, a big train accident. When there were two trains against each other and were 9 people.
Accident #train #voslaan #winsum pic.twitter.com/xiZ61NjE6U— Jasper vd Berg (@jasperfm) November 18, 2016
@112Groningen_nl train derails in winsum @rtvnoord pic.twitter.com/ceCjlR41Vm— Hille Meetsma (@HilleMeetsma) November 18, 2016
#Winsum is a train in collision with tanker. Train derails and truck tilted. Several wounded. #grip2— Police Groningen (@polgroningen) November 18, 2016
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