A freight train collided with a passenger train in Hungary, driver in life-threatening condition

In Hungary, a freight train has hit a stationary passenger train. Several people were injured, including the driver of one of the trains, who is in a life-threatening condition. 

In Hungary, a freight train collided with a passenger train near the village of Sáp. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning at half-past ten when, for reasons as yet unclear, the freight train disregarded a sign forbidding entry and collided with a stationary passenger train waiting there, which was en route from Biharkeresztes to Püspökladány.

Both train drivers, a conductor and several passengers were injured in the accident. Pál Győrfi, head of communications and public relations at the National Ambulance Service (OMSZ), informed MTI that eight ambulance units promptly arrived at the scene of the accident. Four people were taken to the Berettyóújfalu hospital. Firefighters used a crowbar to lift one man out of the passenger train.