{"id":67215,"date":"2026-04-23T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:36:21","slug":"train-collision-in-denmark-prompts-massive-emergency-response-near-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/67215\/","title":{"rendered":"Train collision in Denmark prompts massive emergency response near Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two \u200blocal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/trains\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trains<\/a> collided head-on in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/denmark\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denmark<\/a> on Thursday, injuring at least 18 people, five of \u200bwhom \u200cwere in a \u2060critical condition, according to the emergency service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/police\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police<\/a> statement called it &#8220;a serious accident&#8221; but a police spokesman said that all passengers had been evacuated from the trains.<\/p>\n<p>The incident \u200chappened north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/copenhagen\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copenhagen<\/a>, on a train line linking the towns of Hillerod \u200cand Kagerup, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is two \u200blocal trains that have collided head-on,&#8221; a spokesperson for the rescue services said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are injuries among the passengers. \u200bEveryone is out of the \u200btrains, so no one is trapped &#8230; Large resources \u200bhave been dispatched to the scene,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was raised at 6:30am, according to police spokesman Tim Simonsen.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Trine Egetved, of Gribskov Municipality, said some of the injured were flown to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hospital<\/a> in a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/facebook\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She said the crash occurred on a local rail line that&#8217;s used by many Gribskov residents, employees and schoolchildren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/denmark\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denmark<\/a> 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<p>(FRANCE 24 with AP,\u00a0Reuters and AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two \u200blocal trains collided head-on in Denmark on Thursday, injuring at least 18 people, five of \u200bwhom \u200cwere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,26,71,25971,3618,2973],"class_list":["post-67215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-man-made-disasters","tag-police","tag-trains"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116456180242912413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67215","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=67215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}