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A train near Paderborn travels at about 70 kilometers per hour on a piece of steel lying on the tracks. An axle breaks, the train derails, and a person is injured. Responsible for the accident: an eleven-year-old boy.
An eleven-year-old boy is said to have placed a piece of steel on the rails near Paderborn and derailed a train. According to federal police, one person was injured. The Nordwestbahn train, carrying around 80 passengers, passed over the 1.20-meter-long steel section near the Paderborn-Sennelager train station on Sunday afternoon at about 70 kilometers per hour. In the collision, an axle was ripped out of the train.
According to the police, a railway employee who was in the driver’s cab was injured in the leg by shards of glass from a door. The passengers were unharmed and the firefighters removed them from the train. A spokesman for the Münster Federal Police said officers learned of the boy through references to witnesses. The boy admitted the act. At eleven years old, the child has no age to commit a crime.
The federal police are investigating dangerous interference in rail traffic. Officials want to clarify, among other things, where the boy could have gotten the piece of steel and if other people are involved. The component used to secure the cargo is suspected of being located near the tracks, the police spokesman said. The train was recovered overnight. Material damage occurred on the train and on the track platform, which according to the Federal Police, according to a railway employee, “is certainly in the six-digit euro range.”
In Oschersleben, in Saxony-Anhalt, a witness informed federal police on Saturday about several children who were placing beverage cans filled with sand on the tracks. An approaching train could be stopped in time, the three boys and girls aged twelve to 13 were picked up by the officials and instructed.
