Railway accident in Hanover-Anderten
The Hanover-Anderten railway accident was a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train on December 9, 1997 near Hanover-Anderten . 51 people were injured and several tank cars loaded with diesel fuel caught fire.
Starting position
The KC 72221 freight train coming from Hamburg , a block train made up of 22 tank wagons loaded with more than 250,000 liters of diesel , was on its way to Kassel on the Hanover freight bypass . In the opposite direction, coming from the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line , the RE 5354, occupied by around 300 passengers , drove from Hanover main station to Celle .
the accident
The locomotive driver of the freight train confirmed with the vigilance button that he had heard the distant signal showing "expect stop" . Instead of using the brakes, however, he accelerated his train and drove over the main signal showing “Halt” at 85 km / h . The inductive train protection (INDUSI) then triggered an emergency brake . However, the only 250 m long slip path was no longer sufficient to bring the train to a standstill before it got into the route of the approaching regional express. At 4:53 p.m., both trains collided head-on. The two locomotives wedged together. Three tank cars went up in flames after explosions , and five more were damaged.
consequences
14 passengers and the driver of the passenger train were seriously injured, 35 other passengers suffered minor injuries. As a result of the collision, several tank cars loaded with diesel caught fire. The damage caused by the accident was estimated at 13 million DM .
The difficult-to-access terrain at the scene of the accident made it difficult for the rescue workers to be deployed. Around 400 people from the police , fire brigade and technical relief organization from Ronnenberg , Langenhagen , Hanover and Lehrte were on duty. The extinguishing water had to be brought in from a distance. After the fire was extinguished by the fire brigade after two hours, the remaining heating oil was pumped out of the burned-out tank wagons. The clean-up continued until the morning of December 15th.
literature
- German Bundestag (Ed.): Drucksache 13/9849 = Application by Members Gila Altmann (Aurich), Albert Schmidt (Hitzhofen), Helmut Wilhelm (Amberg), Michaele Hustedt , Dr. Jürgen Rochlitz , Elisabeth Altmann (Pommelsbrunn), Halo Saibold , Egbert Nitsch (Rendsburg) and the BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group : Minimizing the risk of dangerous goods transport. 11 February 1998.
Web links
- Sigrun Stock, Hannes Boeckhoff: "I immediately thought of Elsterwerda". The fire brigade in Hanover only barely managed to prevent a major disaster / soil at the scene of the accident contaminated. ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Zeitung. December 10, 1997.
- THW Ronnenberg: Assignments in 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 13/9849, different higher information from: THW Ronneberg (90 injured); Floor: 64 injured.
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 13/9849.
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 13/9849.
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 13/9849.
- ↑ Bundestag printed paper 13/9849, different higher information from: THW Ronneberg.
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 13.5 ″ E