| Bad Aibling rail accident | |
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 ET 355, the westbound train, photographed in 2014 .jpg) ET 325, the eastbound train, photographed in 2014 | |
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| Details | |
| Date | 9 February 2016 06:47 CET (05:47 UTC)[1] |
| Location | Bad Aibling, Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Line | DB Netze Mangfall Valley Railway |
| Operator | Bayerische Oberlandbahn "Meridian" |
| Incident type | Head-on collision |
| Cause | Signalman's error |
| Statistics | |
| Trains | 2 |
| Passengers | ±150 |
| Deaths | 12 |
| Injured | 85 |
| Damage | 200 m (650 ft) track[2] |
On 9 February 2016, two Meridian-branded passenger trains collided head-on at Bad Aibling, Germany. Of approximately 150 people on board the two trains, 12 people died and 85 others were injured, 24 critically.
Two months after the crash, investigators announced that it had been caused by a Deutsche Bahn train dispatcher who gave incorrect orders to the two trains while distracted by a game he was playing on his mobile phone.[3] The dispatcher further compounded his error when, upon realizing it, he tried to send emergency codes to the trains but entered the wrong combination into his computer.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
police-20160216-150-11-24-61-0647was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Polizei Oberbayern Süd (14 February 2016). "Zugunglück bei Bad Aibling; Zahl der Toten und Verletzten unverändert; Bergungsarbeiten der Züge nahezu abgeschlossen; Ermittlungen von Staatsanwaltschaft und Kripo laufen" [Train crash in Bad Aibling; Number of deaths and injuries unchanged; Salvage of trains almost complete; Investigations by public prosecutor and criminal police underway] (Press release) (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2016.
Der Gleiskörper wurde in diesem Streckenabschnitt auf einer Länge von knapp 200 Meter stark beschädigt und ist daher nicht befahrbar.
- ^ Dispatcher Playing With Cellphone Is Faulted in German Train Crash Archived 16 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine 13 April 2016