Ortenau district - Crane falls onto tracks in station: man injured
A crane driver crashed his vehicle onto the tracks during construction work at Orschweier station near Mahlberg(Ortenau district). The man suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital, the police said on Wednesday. According to their findings, the mobile working crane was being used to erect noise barriers on Wednesday night. While maneuvering, the vehicle crashed onto the track. An auxiliary crane recovered the overturned crane. The section of the Rhine Valley Railway was closed for a good two hours and there were delays to train services. The exact circumstances of the accident are being investigated.
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- Despite the incident at Orschweier station in Mahlberg, a town located in the Ortenau district, the scheduled train services from Baden-Württemberg continued with delays.
- The police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident at the railroad station in Mahlberg, where a vehicle belonging to a crane operator crashed onto the tracks.
- Witnesses reported that the crane, typically used for construction works like erecting noise barriers, was operating near the railroad station in Mahlberg, Ortenau district, when it unexpectedly veered onto the tracks.
- In a similar incident in a different railroad station, authorities discovered that the collision between a vehicle and the rail tracks caused significant damage to the railroad infrastructure in the Betzdorf region of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Source: www.stern.de
