35 people were injured in a train accident in Prague on Wednesday. However, most people suffered only minor injuries in the collision between two passenger trainssaid emergency services spokeswoman Jana Postova. No one’s life is in danger.
In the accident, a train had passed a red stop signal and had crashed into a stationary trainsaid the spokesman for the railway administration, Dusan Gavenda.
An alcohol test indicates that one of the train drivers was drunk. The The Czech railway company CD announced on X“Even if the accident was not the fault of our train driver according to the information available, this does not change the seriousness of this finding,” it continued. The train driver will therefore be dismissed.
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The other train was operated by the Czech railway company KZC, according to the Czech news agency CTK.
In June, four people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train in Pardubice, east of Prague. (AFP)
