Train hits truck in southern Germany, several dead

A train crash in northern Bavaria on Thursday night killed at least one person and wounded several more, German media reported.

The train hit the truck late Thursday at a railway crossing near the Bavarian town of Freihung, around 10 miles from the U.S. Army’s Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr.

The trailer was separated from the lorry due to the force of the collision and dragged several hundred metres by the passenger train.

The 30-year-old truck driver was killed and another body was found in the train-driver’s cab, German police told Reuters. Two people are believed to have been in the lorry, one of whom was able to get out.

Police said about 50 people were aboard the train, which was on a regional line.

“It hurtled at 100 kilometres per hour, without breaking, into the truck”, a spokesman for the police was quoted as saying by news website Focus Online.

Other details were not immediately available.

The train was heading from Nuremberg to the city of Weiden, 100km east of Nuremberg.