(4 Apr 2023)
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Voorschoten - 4 April 2023
1. Dutch King Willem-Alexander at the train crash site
HEADLINE: King visits Netherlands train crash site
2. Various Dutch King Willem-Alexander walking around the train crash site
Annotation: Dutch King Willem-Alexander arrived in Voorschoten today and visited the train crash site.
3. Wide of the train
4. Close up of damaged train
5.Members on the emergency team at location
Annotation: A passenger train slammed into a construction crane and derailed near The Hague in the early hours of this morning, sending two carriages into a field.
6. Damaged train
Annotation: One person has died and 19 were hospitalized, according to the Dutch emergency services.
7. Close up of train
8. Members of the emergency team at location
Annotation: The identity of the person killed in the accident was not immediately released.
9. Various of members of the emergency team at location
10. Broken windows on the train
Annotation: John Voppen, CEO of the rail network company Pro Rail, says that it is not clear how the trains collided with the crane.
11. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) John Voppen, CEO ProRail:
“There are four tracks side by side, and a crane was present on a track where no work was being done. And it is not clear how that platform was on the track. The collision has occurred between the passenger train and a freight train, and how did that happen? Yes, I'm repeating myself, but we really don't know.“
12. Various of train crash
Annotation: The four-carriage passenger train was carrying about 50 passengers at the time of the crash.
13. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) John Voppen, CEO ProRail:
“The driver of the freight train was also slightly injured. It crashed with the freight train but the passenger train suffered far worse damage."
14. Train crash site
Annotation: Police have opened an investigation to establish if any crime was committed.
STORYLINE:
Dutch King Willem-Alexander visited the train crash site in Voorschoten, near The Hague, on Tuesday.
A passenger train slammed into a construction crane and derailed near The Hague in the early hours of Tuesday morning sending two carriages into a field next to the tracks.
One person died and 19 were hospitalized, Dutch emergency services said.
Police opened an investigation to establish if any crime was committed.
Another independent probe was opened into the cause of the crash.
It was not clear if that happened during the accident or as passengers attempted to escape.
Two of the bright yellow and blue train carriages came to rest perpendicular to the tracks across the small canal and partially in a field.
What appeared to be the front of the train was badly damaged. Other parts of the train were partially derailed.
The four-carriage passenger train was carrying about 50 passengers at the time of the crash.
John Voppen, CEO of the rail network company Pro Rail, said that the passenger train and a freight train both hit a crane that was being used to carry out maintenance work.
He said the crane was on tracks that were not being used by train traffic and it is not clear how the trains collided with the crane.
The identity of the person killed in the accident was not immediately released and it was not clear if the person was on the train or part of the maintenance team that had been at work on the rails between the cities of Leiden and The Hague when the crash happened around 3:25 a.m. (0125 GMT) in the town of Voorschoten.
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