{"id":413567,"date":"2026-04-23T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:27:09","slug":"massive-emergency-response-after-two-trains-collide-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413567\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive emergency response after two trains collide in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two trains have collided in Denmark, leaving five people critically injured in what police called a major incident.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at around 6.30am local time near Hillerod, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly a dozen other people have minor injuries, according to the Greater Copenhagen Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/massive-emergency-response-after-two-trains-collide-in-denmark.jpg\" alt=\"Two trains have collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen\" data-title=\"Denmark Train Collision\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Steven Knap\" data-credit=\"Steven Knap\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. No Use in Denmark\"\/>The trains collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen (Steven Knap\/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has been evacuated out of the trains, according to a spokesperson for the North Zealand police.<\/p>\n<p>Officials originally said four people were critically injured but revised that figure hours after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the train\u2019s drivers were among the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking into what caused the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show the front ends of the trains smashed, though both remained upright on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776954429_12_massive-emergency-response-after-two-trains-collide-in-denmark.jpg\" alt=\"Rescuers at the site where two trains have collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen\" data-title=\"Denmark Train Collision\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Steven Knap\" data-credit=\"Steven Knap\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. No Use in Denmark\"\/>Rescuers at the site where two trains collided between Hilleroed and Kagerup (Steven Knap\/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of the nearby town of Gribskov Trine Egetved said in a post on Facebook that some of the injured were flown to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She said the crash occurred on a local rail line that is used by many Gribskov residents, employees and schoolchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two trains have collided in Denmark, leaving five people critically injured in what police called a major incident.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-413567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413567","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=413567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}