Chrudim, Czechia: driver killed after car collides with train

A car driver died in the Chrudim area in the evening after a collision with a passenger train. The crash happened at a level crossing shortly before 6:30 p.m., when a Volkswagen Touran hit a train travelling from Skuteč to Pardubice.

“The driver sustained injuries in the collision to which he succumbed at the scene,” said police spokeswoman Iveta Kopecká. The crossing has no barriers and is equipped only with warning lights.

Firefighters from Chrudim and Slatiňany are at the scene, together with a unit of the Railway Administration's fire service from Havlíčkův Brod, the rescuers wrote on the social network X. They also confirmed that no train passengers were injured. Investigators are working to establish the causes and circumstances of the tragedy.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz