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Train smash: A case of 'human error' in Germany ( Photo 6 of 6 )
Train smash: A case of 'human error' in Germany ( Photo 6 of 6 )
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Germany has been hit by several deadly train accidents in the past few years. In 2006, 23 people were killed and 10 injured when an experimental magnetic suspension Transrapid train crashed at 170 kilometres an hour (over 100 mph) on a test track at Lathen in northwest Germany in a collision with an inspection vehicle. Three years earlier six people died and 25 were injured in June 2003 in a frontal collision between two regional trains ...