{"id":66713,"date":"2026-04-23T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/66713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:32:11","slug":"many-injured-in-head-on-train-smash-in-denmark-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/66713\/","title":{"rendered":"Many injured in head on train smash in Denmark: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train collision near Copenhagen leaves several injured, as emergency services respond to a head-on crash north of the Danish capital<\/p>\n<p>COPENHAGEN: Two trains crashed head-on near the Danish capital Copenhagen on Thursday leaving several people injured, police and media reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports said about 10 people had been injured in the collision between the towns of Hillerod and Kagerup, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement called it \u201ca serious accident\u201d but a police spokesman told AFP that all passengers had been evacuated from the trains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo trains collided and the police and emergency services are mobilised in large numbers,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was raised at 6:30 am (0430 GMT), according to police spokesman Tim Simonsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a head-on collision and there are injuries among the passengers,\u201d he told AFP, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark prides itself on its safety record, but a 2019 train crash left eight dead and 16 injured.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, an express train hit a farm truck on a crossing killing one person and injuring 27 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Train collision near Copenhagen leaves several injured, as emergency services respond to a head-on crash north of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,34294,27,26,25778,36593,36594,36595],"class_list":{"0":"post-66713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-copenhagen","9":"tag-danish-capital","10":"tag-danmark","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-head-on-crash","13":"tag-hillerod","14":"tag-kagerup","15":"tag-train-smash"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116453333267710120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}