{"id":67167,"date":"2026-04-23T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:21:26","slug":"major-train-collision-in-denmark-leaves-5-critically-injured-near-copenhagen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67167\/","title":{"rendered":"Major train collision in Denmark leaves 5 critically injured near Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">COPENHAGEN, Denmark \u2014 Two trains collided in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/denmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denmark<\/a> early Thursday, leaving five people critically injured in what police called a major incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The collision occurred around 6:30 a.m. near Hiller\u00f8d, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Copenhagen. Roughly a dozen other people have minor injuries, according to the Greater Copenhagen Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">There were 38 people aboard the two trains, according to a spokesperson for the North Zealand police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">Officials originally said four people were critically injured but revised that figure hours after the crash. It was not immediately clear whether the train&#8217;s drivers were among the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">Investigators are looking into what caused the collision, which occurred near a level crossing. Photos from the scene show the front ends of the trains smashed, though both remained upright on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The mayor of the nearby town of Gribskov, Trine Egetved, in a post on Facebook, said some of the injured were flown to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">She said the crash occurred on a local rail line that&#8217;s used by many Gribskov residents, employees and schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">No other details were available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph body-copyright\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, Denmark \u2014 Two trains collided in Denmark early Thursday, leaving five people critically injured in what police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,36556,1162,4235,36550,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-67167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-copenhagen","8":"tag-copenhagen","9":"tag-denmark-train-collision","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-law-enforcement","12":"tag-rail-accidents","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116455885104406631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67167","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=67167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}