{"id":22206,"date":"2013-01-21T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/five-hurt-austria-train-crash-091925199.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:30:43","slug":"packed-commuter-trains-collide-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/packed-commuter-trains-collide-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Packed Commuter Trains Collide In Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Two commuter trains have collided head-on in rush-hour traffic in the Austrian capital Vienna, leaving five people seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment there are five people seriously injured and several people with light injuries,&#8221; emergency services spokeswoman Claudia Gigler said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The seriously injured were taken immediately to hospital,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Railways spokeswoman Sarah Nettel said the crash occurred at 8:45am local time in the Penzing district of western Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>A large rescue operation involving around 25 fire engines as well as air ambulances is under way.<\/p>\n<p>It took almost two hours to evacuate both trains, which had been travelling along the same track when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the injured had to be extracted from the wreckage of the crash using special cranes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we will investigate the causes for the collision but at the moment our priority is with the passengers,&#8221; Austrian Railways spokeswoman Sarah Nettel said.<\/p>\n<p>Last September a train derailed in the same area, without causing any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An enquiry blamed human error for the incident after a rail worker switched a point the wrong way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two commuter trains have collided head-on in rush-hour traffic in the Austrian capital Vienna, leaving five people seriously hurt.<br \/>\n&#8220;At the moment there are five people seriously injured and several people with light injuries,&#8221; emergency services spoke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}