Prosecutors blame ‘human error’ for Germany train crash

Prosecutors believe that a train crash which killed 11 people was caused by “human error” on behalf of the train dispatcher.

Giese said: ‘Had he behaved according to the rules the trains would not have collided’.

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Investigators now believe the crash was caused by human error by the train dispatcher.

The man is likely to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and could face up to five years in jail.

“If he would have followed the regulations – acted dutiful – then it would not have come to the collision of the trains”, the authorities said in an accompanying statement.

‘But that went unanswered, ‘ he added.

“One of the trains had bored into the other”.

Branz said the controller did not have any drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the accident.

The worker, who has several years of experience in the job, had admitted the error on Monday, Giese said, adding that he had not been taken into preventive detention as the action was not deliberate.

“It was shocking to see how both trains had smashed into each other”. They were travelling at a speed of 100km/h and collided head on.

Firefighters and emergency doctors at the site of the crash.

The accident is Germany’s first fatal train crash since April 2012, when three people were killed and 13 injured in a collision between two regional trains in the western city of Offenbach.

The trains’ operator, Meridian, is part of French passenger transport firm Transdev, which is jointly owned by state-owned bank CDC and water and waste firm Veolia.