{"id":32473,"date":"2013-01-21T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32473"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:30:53","slug":"austria-train-crashtrains-collide-in-western-vienna-breaking-news-32473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/austria-train-crashtrains-collide-in-western-vienna-breaking-news-32473\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria Train Crash:Trains collide in western Vienna \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32492\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Austria-Train-Collide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32492\" title=\"Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna January 21, 2013. Two  trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Austria-Train-Collide.jpg\" alt=\"Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna January 21, 2013. Two  trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said.\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Austria-Train-Collide.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Austria-Train-Collide-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna January 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Two commuter trains have collided head-on in rush-hour traffic in the Austrian capital Vienna, leaving five people seriously hurt.<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment there are five people seriously injured and several people with light injuries,&#8221; emergency services spokeswoman Claudia Gigler said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The seriously injured were taken immediately to hospital,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Railways spokeswoman Sarah Nettel said the crash occurred at 8:45am local time in the Penzing district of western Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>A large rescue operation involving around 25 fire engines as well as air ambulances is under way.<\/p>\n<p>It took almost two hours to evacuate both trains, which had been travelling along the same track when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the injured had to be extracted from the wreckage of the crash using special cranes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we will investigate the causes for the collision but at the moment our priority is with the passengers,&#8221; Austrian Railways spokeswoman Sarah Nettel said.<\/p>\n<p>Last September a train derailed in the same area, without causing any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An enquiry blamed human error for the incident after a rail worker switched a point the wrong way.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two commuter trains have collided head-on in rush-hour traffic in the Austrian capital Vienna, leaving five people seriously hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[8999,43996,44002,77166,43999,11661,44001,43998,43995,43997,44004,44000,19124,44003],"class_list":["post-32473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-austria","tag-austria-train-crush","tag-austrian-capital-vienna","tag-breaking-news","tag-five-people-hurt","tag-railway","tag-rush-hour-traffic-railway","tag-train-collide-austria","tag-train-crush","tag-trains-collide-western-vienna","tag-transport-disaster","tag-two-commuter-trains-collided","tag-vienna","tag-western-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}