Dozens hurt in head-on Vienna commuter train crash
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Two trains of the line S45 stand off rail after having crashed on Jan 21, 2013, in Vienna, Austria. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Austrian rescue personnel stands in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Two demolished S45 trains are pictured after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A view inside a demolished S45 train where it was frontally hit by another after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Two trains of the line S45 stand off rail after having crashed on Jan 21, 2013, in Vienna, Austria. -- PHOTO: AFP
Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Austrian rescue personnel stands in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Two demolished S45 trains are pictured after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Austrian rescue personnel carries an injured person in front of two demolished S45 trains after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A view inside a demolished S45 train where it was frontally hit by another after a train crash in Vienna Jan 21, 2013. Two trains collided Monday morning, injuring 25 people, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
VIENNA (REUTERS) - Forty-one people were hurt - five of them seriously - when two crowded commuter trains crashed head-on in Vienna during the morning rush hour on Monday.
The driver of one train and another person remained in critical condition after the mishap, according to the emergency services in the Austrian capital.
Operations on the line had been switched to manual following a technical defect with a shunting switch, and a spokesman for Austrian railways said human error had not been ruled out as a possible cause of the crash.
"A train got permission to travel when it should not have," she said.
