A train driver died on Monday morning after his Pendolino train hit a shunting locomotive at Bohumín station in the Moravia-Silesia region of the Czech Republic. A member of the train’s crew was slightly injured, as were four people working on the shunting locomotive, a spokesman for the railway company told Czech news agency CTK.
Rescuers said no passengers were wounded in the crash.
Railway Inspectorate chief Jan Kucera said the most likely cause of the accident was the Pendolino driver’s failure to obey a stop signal.
?? One dead and five injured after high-speed train hits locomotive in the Czech Republic.
The driver of a high-speed train died after it collided with a locomotive this morning in #Bohumin after the Pendolino train departed for Prague. https://t.co/PEtbHMj7QU— Chris Ogilvie (@Ogilvie_CJ) June 27, 2022
