Woman and baby injured after train hits car at Udenhout crossing at high speed
A train traveling about 130 kilometers per hour struck a car at a rail crossing on Kreitenmolenstraat in Udenhout on Saturday evening, injuring a woman and her baby and leaving roughly 400 passengers stuck on board, Omroep Brabant reported.
Bystanders pulled both victims from the badly-damaged vehicle before emergency crews arrived. Police said the woman and her baby suffered only minor injuries despite what authorities and witnesses described as a severe impact to the front of the car. Ambulance personnel treated them at the scene.
Inside the train, about four hundred people remained unable to leave as of late Saturday. Officials did not yet know when those passengers would be evacuated.
Rail traffic between Den Bosch and Tilburg stopped until 9:30 p.m. because of the crash. Police and ProRail are investigating how the car ended up on the tracks.
