{"id":413308,"date":"2026-04-23T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:57:08","slug":"17-injured-as-two-trains-collide-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413308\/","title":{"rendered":"17 injured as two trains collide in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people have been injured, five critically, after two \u2060trains collided head-on in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 40km north of Copenhagen, on a train line linking the towns of Hillerod \u200cand Kagerup, police said in a statement<\/p>\n<p>Public broadcaster DR showed images of two yellow and grey trains, both \u200cwith visible \u2060damage to the front, facing each other in a wooded area.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was raised at 6.30 am local time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There \u2060are injuries \u200camong the passengers. Everyone is out of the trains, so no one is trapped &#8230; Large \u2060resources have been dispatched to the scene,&#8221; a \u2060spokesperson for the rescue services added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rescue workers stand near two trains that collided\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/002443d7-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRescue workers at the scene of the collision<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Gribskov municipality, Trine Egetved, said on Facebook that some of the injured were taken to hospital by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Egetved said she had been &#8220;deeply upset and shocked&#8221; by the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This train is used by many residents of Gribskov, workers and students. The emergency services are working tirelessly, and we are trying, at the central level, to get a clear picture of what happened and to ensure that everyone receives the help they need,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark prides itself on its safety record, but a 2019 train crash left eight dead and 16 injured.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, an express train hit a farm truck on a crossing killing one person and injuring 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 17 people have been injured, five critically, after two \u2060trains collided head-on in Denmark. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-413308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}