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Five lives claimed: three railway workers charged after a train accident in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (D).

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In June 2022, a train derailed in the spa town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

According to information from the dpa, charges have been filed against three railway workers following the fatal train accident in the German Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the summer of 2022. Investigators accuse them of, among other things, negligent homicide. The Munich II Public Prosecutor’s Office declined to comment.

In the accident on June 3, 2022, a regional train from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Munich derailed – five people were killed and 78 were injured. According to an interim report from the Federal Office for Railway Accident Investigation, damaged concrete sleepers were the cause of the accident.

In the interim report, accident investigators identify a “defect in the superstructure” of the railway as the main cause of the derailment of the regional train. The prestressed concrete sleepers installed at the site of the accident showed damage, which would have caused the so-called rail supports as a connection between the rail and the concrete to have broken off. The railway has announced that it will replace several hundred thousand concrete sleepers after the accident.

Fueled speculation

It has been speculated several times that no warning was given before the accident due to a problem at the later accident site. According to media reports, including from the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, a corresponding message from a train driver was not passed on. It was said that the operator had noticed something “extraordinary”.

Initially, five railway employees were investigated. However, in two cases the procedure was stopped. (SDA)

Source: Blick

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