'Human error' caused deadly German train crash
German prosecutors yesterday said human error was to blame for a train crash last week that killed 11 people and charged a 39-year-old signalling worker with negligence leading to the accident.
"If he had complied with the rules ... then there would have been no collision between the trains," said Wolfgang Giese, the prosecutor who led the investigation into last Tuesday's accident in southern Germany.
"There is no evidence of technical problems... Our investigation shows that this was human error with catastrophic consequences," he added.
Two commuter trains travelling at high speed crashed head-on near the spa town of Bad Aibling last Tuesday, in one of Germany's deadliest accidents in years, with one slicing the other apart, ripping a large gash in its side.
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