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KAMEDO Report No. 79 Train Accident in Germany, 1998

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Lennart Iselius ,
Per-Åke Nilsson  and
Louis Riddez
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Abstract

A train traveling at 200 kilometers per hour carrying 300 passengers crashed into a bridge. At leaset 85 doctors and 1,889 persons were involved in the emergency response. A total of 101 persons were killed, 108 were injured, and 87 were transported to a hospital (27 by helicopter; 60 by land ambulance). Eighty percent of the severely injured were trasported to a hosptial within two hours of the crash. Coordination of the activities of the hoards of responders was an issue, as was the lack of a formal organization to provide psychosocial support. Preparedness plans should include management of the dead and for the provision of psychosocial support.

Keywords

coordinationdisasteremergency servicesGermanyhelicopter transportorganizationprehospital transportpreparedness planrelief workertrain
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 119 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2006

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