{"id":67171,"date":"2026-04-23T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67171\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:24:17","slug":"18-people-injured-when-two-trains-collide-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67171\/","title":{"rendered":"18 people injured when two trains collide in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A damaged train is pictured as two trains collided between the towns of Hillerod and Kagerup, north of Copenhagen, leaving many injured, on April 23, 2026. Two trains crashed head-on…<\/p>\n

COPENHAGEN \u2014 Two local trains collided head-on north of the Danish capital Copenhagen on Thursday, injuring 18 people, five of them critically, emergency services said.<\/p>\n

Two yellow and grey trains stood at the site, both with visible damage to the front \u200band facing each other on a tree-lined stretch of track, with rescue services describing \u201cchaotic\u201d scenes inside \u200bthe carriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two trains collided head-on, causing large damage to them and sending broken \u2060glass flying everywhere,\u201d fire and rescue service leader Christoffer Buhl Martekilde told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Two local trains collided head-on north of the Danish capital Copenhagen on Thursday, injuring 18 people, according to officials. AP<\/p>\n

Early morning crash<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson \u200bsaid it was too early to say what had caused the crash on the Gribskov train line linking \u200bthe towns of Hillerod and Kagerup, adding there would be an extensive investigation.<\/p>\n

A total of 37 people are believed to have been on board the two trains at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m. (0430 GMT), the \u200bpolice said.<\/p>\n

While health services attended to the injured, those who were not physically hurt were also offered \u200bassistance, said transport group Movia, parent company of rail operator Lokaltog.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe serious train accident on the Gribskov Line deeply affects \u200cus at \u2060Movia, and our thoughts go out to the injured, their relatives, and Lokaltog\u2019s employees,\u201d Movia board Chair Kenneth Gotterup said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Emergency services scrambled 18 vehicles and 47 rescue workers to the crash site.<\/p>\n

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he had contacted acting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to offer assistance.<\/p>\n

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Two yellow and grey trains stood at the site, both with visible damage to the front \u200band facing each other on a tree-lined stretch of track. Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Emergency workers at the site of a collision between two trains between Hilleroed and Kagerup at Isteroedvejen, Thursday, April 23, 2026. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe two trains collided head-on, causing large damage to them and sending broken \u2060glass flying everywhere,\u201d fire and rescue service leader Christoffer Buhl Martekilde told reporters. Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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A total of 37 people are believed to have been on board the two trains at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m., the \u200bpolice said. AP<\/p>\n

Danish \u200bpolice said they had declined \u200bthe Swedish offer to \u2060assist as local resources were sufficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are injuries among the passengers. Everyone is out of the trains, so no one is trapped\u2026 Large resources have been dispatched \u200bto the scene,\u201d a spokesperson told Reuters earlier.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s worst railway disaster this century \u200boccurred in \u20602019, when a high-speed train hit an obstacle on a bridge during a storm, killing eight people and injuring many more in what police said was a difficult rescue operation.<\/p>\n

While such accidents are rare in Denmark, one \u2060person was \u200bkilled, and several others were injured in 2025 when\u00a0a train hit \u200ba vehicle\u00a0and derailed in the south of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A damaged train is pictured as two trains collided between the towns of Hillerod and Kagerup, north of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[108,25169,27,26,36593,36837,23407,36839,36838],"class_list":{"0":"post-67171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-copenhagen","9":"tag-danish-prime-minister-mette-frederiksen","10":"tag-danmark","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-hillerod","13":"tag-local-trains","14":"tag-police-spokesperson","15":"tag-two-trains-collided","16":"tag-visible-damage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116455897030274674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67171","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=67171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}